Hannah Landecker

Book: 

Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies, Harvard University Press, 2007 

Articles and Book Chapters:

Landecker, Hannah, "Trace Amounts at Industrial Scale: Arsenicals and Medicated Feed in the Making of the 'Western Diet'," 187-213 in A. Creager & JP. Gaudillière (eds.), Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health and the Environment, Berghahn Books, 2021.

LeGoff, Anne, Patrick Allard, and Hannah Landecker, "Heritable Changeability: Epimutation and the legacy of negative definition in epigenetic concepts," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A 86:35-46, 2021.  [open access publication available here]

Bazzi Wael, Antoine Abou Fayad, Aya Nasser, Louise-Patrick Haraoui, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Omar El-Diwachi, Ghassan Soleiman Abu SItta, Hannah Landecker, Aula Abbara, Charles W Knapp, Megan McEvoy, Muhammad H Zaman, Paul G Higgins, Ghassan M Matar, "Resistance to heavy metals in Acinetobacter baumannii: may be increased in conflict settings," Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020;11:68.

Lappé, Martine, Robbin Jeffries Hein, and Hannah Landecker. "Environmental Politics of Reproduction." Annual Review of Anthropology 48:133-150 (2019) [Annual Reviews].

Landecker, Hannah.  "Antimicrobials Before Antibiosis: War, Peace and Disinfectants," Palgrave Communications 5:45 (2019). [open access publication available here]

Landecker, Hannah. "On The Odor of Rancid Butter, A Twentieth Century Update," History of Anthropology Newsletter 43 (2019): http://histanthro.org/notes/odor-of-rancid-butter/.

Kelty, Christopher, and Hannah Landecker, “Outside In: Microbiomes, Epigenomes, Visceral Sensing, and Metabolic Ethics,”  53-65 in After Practice: Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally, edited by The Laboratory for the Anthropology of the Environment and Human Relations, Berlin: Panama Verlag, 2019.

Landecker, Hannah.  “The Matter of Practice in the Historiography of the Experimental Life Sciences,” 1-22 in M. Dietrich and M. Borrello, eds. Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Springer, 2018.

Landecker, Hannah. "Metabolism, Autonomy, Individuality," 225-248 in What is an Individual? Where Philosophy, History and Biology Coincide, L. Nyhart & S. Lidgard eds.,Chicago University Press, 2017.

Landecker, Hannah. "The Social as Signal in the Body of Chromatin," The Sociological Review Monographs 64(1):79-99, 2016.

Landecker, Hannah. "It is what it eats: Chemically defined media and the history of surrounds." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016.

Lappé, Martine and Hannah Landecker. "Sociology in an Age of Genomic Instability: Copy Number Variation, Somatic Mosaicism, and the Fallen Genome," Advances in Medical Sociology Volume 16: Genetics, Health and Society, pp.157-186, 2015. (Selected as Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence).

Landecker, Hannah. "Commentary: The Information of Conformation," International Journal of Epidemiology, Advance Online Publication April 7, 2015.  doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv022.

Lappé, Martine, and Hannah Landecker.  "How the Genome got a Life Span," New Genetics and Society 34(2):152-176, 2015.

Landecker, Hannah. "Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History," Body and Society 22(4):19-52, 2016.  [open access publication available here]

Panofsky, Aaron, and Hannah Landecker.  "From Social Structure to Gene Regulation, And Back: A Critical Introduction to Environmental Epigenetics for Sociology," Annual Review of Sociology 39:333-357, 2013.

Landecker, Hannah. "Metabolism, Reproduction, and the Aftermath of Categories," Feminist & Scholar Online 11(3): Summer 2013.  

Landecker, Hannah. "When the Control Becomes the Experiment," Limn 3: Sentinel Devices, 2013.  here.

Landecker, Hannah. "Post-Industrial Metabolism: Fat Knowledge," Public Culture 25(3):495-522, 2013.

Landecker, Hannah. "The Metabolism of Philosophy, in Three Parts," 193-224 in Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity, B. Malkmus and I. Cooper, eds., Bern: Peter Lang, 2013.

Landecker, Hannah. "The Life of Movement: From Microcinematography to Live Cell Imaging," Journal of Visual Culture 11(3):378-399, 2012.

Landecker, Hannah. "Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the New Metabolism," BioSocieties 6:167-194, 2011. [open access publication here]

Landecker, Hannah. "Creeping, Dying, Drinking: The Cinematic Portal and the Microscopic World of the Twentieth Century Cell," Science in Context24(3):381-416, 2011.

Landecker, Hannah. "Seeing Things: From Microcinematography to Live Cell Imaging," Nature Methods 6:707-709, 2009. 

Landecker, Hannah, and Angela N.H. Creager, "Technical Matters: method, knowledge and infrastructure in twentieth century life science," Nature Methods 6:701-705, 2009. here.

Landecker, Hannah. “Living Differently in Time: Plasticity, Temporality and Cellular Biotechnologies,” in Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies: Anthropological Approaches to a New Politics of Vision, Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. [online version]

Landecker, Hannah. “Microcinematography and the History of Science and Film,” Isis, 97:121-132, 2006. 

Landecker, Hannah. “Cellular Features: Microcinematography and Early Film Theory,” Critical Inquiry 31:903-937, 2005. 

Kelty, Christopher, and Hannah Landecker.  “A Theory of Animation: Cells, L-Systems, and Film,” Grey Room, 17:30-63, 2004. 

Landecker, Hannah. “The Lewis Films: Tissue Culture and ‘Living Anatomy’, 1919-1940,” 117-144 in Centennial History of the Carnegie Institute Department of Embryology, Jane Maienschein, Marie Glitz and Garland Allan (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

Landecker, Hannah. “Building ‘A New Type of Body in Which to Grow a Cell’: The Origins of Tissue Culture,” 151-174 in Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University, Darwin Stapleton (ed.), New York: Rockefeller University Press, 2004. 

Landecker, Hannah. “On Beginning and Ending with Apoptosis: Cell Death and Biomedicine,” in Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Life Sciences, edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, School of American Research Press, 2003. 

Landecker, Hannah. “New Times for Biology: Nerve Cultures and the Advent of Cellular Life in Vitro,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 33:667-694, 2002. 

Landecker, Hannah. “Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line,” in Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics, edited by Paul Brodwin, Theories of Contemporary Culture series, Indiana University Press, 2000. Reprinted in A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities, Byron Good, Michael Fischer, Sarah Willen, Mary-Jo Delvecchio-Good (eds.), pp. 353-366, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Landecker, Hannah. “Between Beneficence and Chattel: The Human Biological in Law and Science,” Science in Context 12(1): 203-225, 1999. Reprinted in Law and Science, Volume II: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements, International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Susan Silbey, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 181-204.