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Autore: | Squier Susan Merrill |
Titolo: | Liminal Lives [[electronic resource] ] : Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine |
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 |
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