Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / / Susan Merrill Squier
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| Autore: |
Squier Susan Merrill
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| Titolo: |
Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / / Susan Merrill Squier
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 174.2/9 |
| 174.29 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Social medicine |
| Medical ethics | |
| Medical technology | |
| Human reproductive technology | |
| Science fiction | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| 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: | 9780822386285 |
| 0822386283 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959223303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.