Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Squier, Susan Merrill.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Medical ethics.

Medical technology.

Human reproductive technology.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822386285

0822386283

OCLC:

648273793