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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823619303321

Autore

Squier Susan Merrill

Titolo

Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / / Susan Merrill Squier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8223-8628-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

174.2/9

174.29

Soggetti

Social medicine

Medical ethics

Medical technology

Human reproductive technology

Science fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.