Liminal lives [electronic resource] : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.

By: Squier, Susan MerrillContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004Description: xvi, 350 p. : illSubject(s): Social medicine | Medical ethics | Medical technology | Human reproductive technology | Science fictionGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: RA418 | .S76 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The uses of literature for feminist science studies: tracing liminal lives -- The cultured cell: life and death at Strangeways -- The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire -- Giant babies: graphing growth in the early twentieth century -- Incubabies and rejuvenates: the traffic between technologies of reproduction and age extension -- Transplant medicine and transformative narrative -- Liminal performances of aging: from replacement to regeneration -- Coda: the pluripotent discourse of stem cells: liminality, relexivity, and literature.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index.

The uses of literature for feminist science studies: tracing liminal lives -- The cultured cell: life and death at Strangeways -- The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire -- Giant babies: graphing growth in the early twentieth century -- Incubabies and rejuvenates: the traffic between technologies of reproduction and age extension -- Transplant medicine and transformative narrative -- Liminal performances of aging: from replacement to regeneration -- Coda: the pluripotent discourse of stem cells: liminality, relexivity, and literature.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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