Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 59-78

  Franklin, Sarah ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio innovation; Research; Scientific innovation; Stem cell development; Stem cell technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889479358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696569.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

References (26)

1. Kerry Capel, ''In Stem-Cell Research, It's Rule Britannia,'' Business Week Online, April 4, 2002, p. 1.
2. Sarah Franklin, Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception (London: Routledge, 1997);
3. Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992).
4. Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury, and Jackie Stacey, Global Nature, Global Culture (London: Sage, 2000).
5. Margaret Lock, ''Deadly Disputes: the Calculation of Meaningful Life,'' in Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies, M. Lock, A. Young, and A. Cambrosio, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
6. Margaret Lock, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
7. European Commission, ''Stem Cells: Promises and Precautions,'' RTD info (Brussels) 32, 2001, p. 4.
8. Hannah Landecker, ''On Beginning and Ending With Apoptosis: Cells and Biomedicine,'' in Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences, Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds. (Oxford: James Currey, 2003), pp. 23-59.
9. European Commission, ''Stem Cells,'' p. 4.
10. European Commission, ''Stem Cells,'' p. 7.
11. American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition (1992), p. 521.
12. August Weisman, ''The Continuity of the Germplasm,'' in Das Keimplasma ( Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1892).
13. August Weisman, Essays upon Heredity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889), p. 167.
14. Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982).
15. A useful and comprehensive source of information on embryology can be found at the virtual embryo website (http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/virtualembryo/index.htm).
16. Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists who Created Dolly (London: Headline, 2000), p. 17.
17. Royal Society, Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Cloning: An Update (London: The Royal Society, 2000);
18. Royal Society, Stem Cell Research: Second Update (London: The Royal Society, 2001).
19. House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research (London: HMSO, 2002), p. 13.
20. House of Lords, Stem Cell Research, p. 32.
21. See Sarah Franklin and Celia Roberts, Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming, 2005).
22. Qui-Long Ying, Jennifer Nichols, Edward P. Evans, and Austin G. Smith, ''Changing Potency by Spontaneous Fusion,'' Nature 416, 2002, pp. 545-548.
23. I have written elsewhere about the ways in which the Geron Corporation has ''built in'' a cultural/ethical component to their cell lines, in a variation of this generative, or fertilizing, effect. See Sarah Franklin, ''Culturing Biology: Cell Lines for the Second Millennium,'' Health 5(3), 2001, pp. 335-354.
24. Sharon Traweek, Beamtimes and Lifetimes: the World of High Energy Physicists (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).
25. Paul Rabinow, French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
26. Lewis Wolpert, The Triumph of the Embryo (Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 94.