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Autore |
Squier Susan Merrill |
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Titolo |
Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / / Susan Merrill Squier |
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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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Social medicine |
Medical ethics |
Medical technology |
Human reproductive technology |
Science fiction |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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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