Joanna Radin, Assistant Professor of History of Medicine, of History and of Anthropology, has published a new book, Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood, which was named by Nature as a best book of the week.
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially invaluable biological information about genetic ancestry, evolution, microbes, and much more. In Life on Ice, Joanna Radin examines how and why these frozen blood samples shaped the practice known as biobanking.
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