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.
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.
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
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
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