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