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Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine

Title: Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.
Author: Squier, Susan Merrill.
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

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xvi, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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

Contents

Introduction : networking liminality -- 1. The uses of literature for feminist science studies : tracing liminal lives -- 2. The cultured cell : life and death at Strangeways -- 3. The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire -- 4. Giant babies : graphing growth in the early twentieth century -- 5. Incubabies and rejuvenates : the traffic between technologies of reproduction and age extension -- 6. Transplant medicine and transformative narrative -- 7. Liminal performances of aging : from replacement to regeneration -- Coda : the pluripotent discourse of stem cells : liminality, reflexivity, and literature.

ISBN

0822333813 (cloth : alk. paper)
082233366X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004014307

OCLC

55738860
ocm55738860
SCSB-5163320

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Columbia University Libraries