Abstract:Ice cream, blood serum, and other sticky things I n a time of DNA-centric-historization of biomedical science, Joanna Radin's Life on ice: a history of new uses for cold blood is a cool reminder of the sample behind the data, and of the treatment of samples that preceded (and in some cases, permitted) subsequent extraction of DNA. The book is as much a genealogy of ice cream vending machines and German patents as it is Cold War historiography of scientific diplomacy. Most compellingly, it is a tale of time tra… Show more
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