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Autore |
Squier Susan Merrill |
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Titolo |
Liminal Lives [[electronic resource] ] : Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biotechnology |
Biomedical Technology |
Reproductive Techniques |
Bioethical Issues |
Bioethics |
Literature, Modern |
Ethics, Medical |
Medicine in Literature |
Feminism |
Technology |
Literature |
Investigative Techniques |
Humanism |
Ethics |
Biological Science Disciplines |
Therapeutics |
Ethics, Clinical |
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |
Humanities |
Ethics, Professional |
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture |
Natural Science Disciplines |
Health Care |
Philosophy |
Social Medicine |
Public Health |
Health & Biological Sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Networking Liminality; 1. The Uses of Literature for Feminist Science Studies: Tracing Liminal Lives; 2. The Cultured Cell: Life and Death at Strangeways; 3. The Hybrid Embryo and Xenogenic Desire; 4. Giant Babies: Graphing Growth in the Early Twentieth Century; 5. Incubabies and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of Reproduction and Age Extension; 6. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative; 7. Liminal Performances of Aging: From Replacement to Regeneration |
Coda: The Pluripotent Discourse of Stem Cells: Liminality, Reflexivity, and LiteratureNotes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A study of the mutually constituitive relations between Western biomedicine and Ango- American literature in the 20th and early 21st centuries, tracing the interwoven processes by which both fields have transformed the course of human life. |
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