Latent life
Concepts and practices of human tissue preservation in the International Biological Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11923374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Radin (0000-0002-2332-6535, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 484-508 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306312713476131 |
| OpenAlex | W2144842762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
| References cited | 85 |
Before the rise of DNA sequence analysis or the controversies over the Human Genome Diversity Project, there was the International Biological Program, which ran from 1964 to 1974. The Human Adaptability arm of the International Biological Program featured a complex encounter between human geneticists and biological anthropologists. These scientists were especially interested in what could be learned from the bodies of people they referred to as both primitive and in danger of going extinct. In this article, I address how new access to technologies of cold storage, which would allow blood to be transported from the field to the lab and be stored for subsequent reanalysis, gave shape to this episode in Cold War human biology and has ramified into our genomic age. This case study highlights the importance of cryopreservation to projects of genetic salvage as well as to the life sciences, more generally. I argue that ‘latency’, a technical term initially used by cryobiologists to describe life in a state of suspended animation, can be extended as a concept for science studies scholars interested in technoscientific efforts to manage the future
Adaptability · Biological sciences · Biology · Cold war · Computational biology · Data science · Diversity (politics · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Race, Genetics, and Society · Ecology
Native Studies Keywords
Potentializing Native Breeds
Native Studies Keywords
Human Genome Diversity Project
Robert Kirk
Collections d’échantillons biologiques autochtones et cryopolitique de la vie congelée
Regimes of freshness
Anticipating and suspending
Taking care
Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability
The World United in Studying Itself? Data and the Coloniality of the International Geophysical Year, 1957–1958
Amerindians, Europeans, Makiritare, Mestizos, Puerto Rican, and Quechua
Orphan DNA
Genomic articulations of indigeneity
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Conceptualising Suspended Life
The blood that remains
Putting menopause on ice
Pinning beetles, biobanking futures
Origin stories from a regional placenta tissue collection
What’s at stake? Determining indigeneity in the era of DIY DNA
Saving embryos in stem cell science and embryo adoption
Human heredity after 1945
Banking time’
The making of ‘old eggs’
Frischeregime Biopolitik im Zeitalter der kryogenen Kultur
Work, welfare, and the values of voluntarism
Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots
Authentic, Original, and Valuable
Stowaways in the history of science
Human genetics after the bomb
Chromosome surveys of human populations
Saving the gene pool for the future
Unfolding epidemiological stories
Frosties
Population-genetic trees, maps, and narratives of the great human diasporas
Population genetics, cybernetics of difference, and pasts in the present
The ‘good’ of extending fertility
International Human Adaptability Studies in Skolt Sami Societies in the 1960s
Ethics in retrospect
The stuff of memories
Organizing for ontological change
The face as folded object
Life in the cryo-kennel
The maternal body as environment in autism science
Subject 01
Indigenous biospecimen collections and the cryopolitics of frozen life
How the living shapes markets
Essential Collaborators
From ark to bank
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics
Virtual Geographies of Belonging
Entanglements of Time, Temperature, Technology, and Place in Ancient DNA Research
"Rendering Inuit cancer "visible
Digital Natives
Colonial History and Postcolonial Science Studies
Documenting Human Nature
Introduction
Imagining the Future of Motherhood
The Political Elaboration on Science and Technology of the Italian Communist Party Between the 1960s and the 1980s
Live methods and live things
Chiropteran Reservoirs. Bat Keepers and Bat Carers in Ghana and Australia
Why Did They Die
The Seed Keepers
Shit, in Silico
Terminality
Ethics in Human Biology
Informed Consent
Freezing Seeds and Making Futures
Indigenous blood and ethical regimes in the United States and Australia since the 1960s
Varieties of the Primitive
Patrons of the Human Experience
Planned Hindsight
The Frozen Archive, or Defrosting Derrida
Modeling nature
The Solomon Islands project
Science in action
Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
Fresh
Promising Genomics
Culturing Life
The Right Tools for the Job
Strange Harvest
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Dolly Mixtures
Trading the Genome
The Human Genome Diversity Project
Tissue Economies
Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project
Europe and the people without history
Victorian Anthropology
Race to the Finish
Section of Anthropology
French DNA
Race Decoded
Yanomami
The Reinvention of Primitive Society
Genetic evidence and interpretation in history
Tradable Body Parts? How Bone and Recycled Prosthetic Devices Acquire a Price without Forming a ‘Market’
The Jewish community of Rome
Putting Meat on the American Table
Technologies of immortality
The Human Genome Diversity Project
The Biologistical Construction of Race
Representations of Nature Mediating Between Ecology and Science Policy
Introduction
Science as Salvation
The Economies and Conveniences of Modern-Day Living
Problems and methods in the genetics of primitive groups
Like Ribbons of Green and Gold
Objectivity and its discontents
Liminal Lives
Orphan DNA
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Anticipation
Living Differently in Time
Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk
From subjugated knowledge to conjugated subjects
Research in Population Genetics of Primitive Groups
Refrigeration in America. A History of a New Technology and Its Impact
The Experimenter's Museum
The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines
Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication
Ethnographic Salvage and the Shaping of Anthropology1
The Newer Physical Anthropology
Indigenous Peoples, Postcolonial Contexts and Genomic Research in the Late 20th Century
Leaving Few Bones Unturned
The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations
Ethical Issues in Human Population Biology
Your DNA IsOurHistory
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The Possession of Kuru
Human genome diversity project
| Unique citing works | 74 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |