Susan Merrill Squier

Liminal Lives

Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333661
• ISBN-10: 082233366X
• Artikelnr.: 21006510

Autorenporträt

Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; editor of Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (published by Duke University Press); and coeditor of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. She is past president and Executive Board Member of the Society for Literature and Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Networking Liminality 1
1. The Uses of Literature for Feminist Science Studies: Tracing Liminal
Lives 25
2. The Cultured Cell: Life and Death at Strangeways 58
3. The Hybrid Embryo and Xenogenic Desire 89
4. Giant Babies: Graphing Growth in the Early Twentieth Century 112
5. Incubabies and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of
Reproduction and Age Extension 146
6. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative 168
7. Liminal Performances of Aging: From Replacement to Regeneration 214
Coda: The Pluripotent Discourse of Stem Cells: Liminality, Reflexivity, and
Literature 253
Notes 281
Works Cited 315
Index 335