02749nam 22006854a 450 991095922330332120080407035635.09780822386285082238628310.1515/9780822386285(CKB)1000000000757942(EBL)1168028(OCoLC)648273793(SSID)ssj0000393307(PQKBManifestationID)11290664(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000393307(PQKBWorkID)10361666(PQKB)10697407(MiAaPQ)EBC1168028(DE-B1597)553114(DE-B1597)9780822386285(OCoLC)1055295147(Perlego)1466991(EXLCZ)99100000000075794220080407d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiminal lives imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine /Susan Merrill SquierDurham Duke University Press20041 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780822333814 0822333813 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.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.e-Duke books scholarly collection.Social medicineMedical ethicsMedical technologyHuman reproductive technologyScience fictionSocial medicine.Medical ethics.Medical technology.Human reproductive technology.Science fiction.174.2/9174.29Squier Susan Merrill703297MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959223303321Liminal lives4366489UNINA