Major interests are anthropology of biotechnology and biomedicine; history of twentieth century biotechnology and cell biology in North America and Europe; science and representation; the relationship of social sciences to biological sciences. Current research interests are in the use and commodification of cellular technologies made of living matter, scientific film, and biology and temporality.
Publications
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies, Forthcoming Harvard University Press, Fall 2007.
"Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory," Critical Inquiry 31:903-937, 2005. link.
"Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular Biotechnologies," Culture Machine (7) 2005 link.
"Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line." Paul Brodwin, ed. Biotechnology and Culture, 2000.
"Between Beneficence and Chattel: The Human Biological in Law and Science." Science in Context, 1999.
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