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: 235mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333814
• ISBN-10: 0822333813
• Artikelnr.: 21223641

Autorenporträt

Susan Merrill Squier

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