Liminal Lives [[electronic resource] ] : Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

• Autore: Squier Susan Merrill
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2/9
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Liminal Lives
• ISBN: 0-8223-8628-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777992703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II