LEADER 04644nam 2200997Ia 450 001 9910811543603321 005 20230622233846.0 010 $a1-282-35992-4 010 $a9786612359927 010 $a0-520-94472-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520944725 035 $a(CKB)2420000000002451 035 $a(EBL)837164 035 $a(OCoLC)773564878 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204720 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238090 035 $a(PQKB)10104411 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837164 035 $a(OCoLC)667013087 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30332 035 $a(DE-B1597)518830 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520944725 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675690 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235992 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000002451 100 $a20081203d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdacontent 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIcons of life $ea cultural history of human embryos /$fLynn M. Morgan 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (329 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-520-26044-9 311 0 $a0-520-26043-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$t1. A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement --$t2. Embryo Visions --$t3. Building a Collection --$t4. Inside the Embryo Production Factory --$t5. Traffic in "Embryo Babies" --$t6. Embryo Tales --$t7. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life --$t8. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIcons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950's, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean. 606 $aEmbryology, Human$xSocial aspects 606 $aTissue culture$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman reproductive technology$xSocial aspects 606 $aMedical anthropology 610 $a20th century american history. 610 $a20th century scientific history. 610 $abaltimore foundling homes. 610 $abiology. 610 $acarnegie institute of washington. 610 $aembryo babies. 610 $aembryo collection. 610 $aembryo production factory. 610 $aembryology. 610 $afetal politics. 610 $agertrude stein. 610 $ahealthcare. 610 $aicons of life. 610 $ajohns hopkins anatomy department. 610 $amaternal politics. 610 $amedial treatment. 610 $amedical care. 610 $amount holyoke collection. 610 $aourselves unborn. 610 $apregnancy. 610 $apregnant women. 610 $ascience. 610 $ascientific study. 610 $asocial artifacts. 610 $aspecimen collecting. 610 $aunited states of america. 615 0$aEmbryology, Human$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTissue culture$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman reproductive technology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMedical anthropology. 676 $a612.6/4 700 $aMorgan$b Lynn Marie$01658543 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811543603321 996 $aIcons of life$94012616 997 $aUNINA