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Icons of Life : a Cultural History of Human Embryos.
Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520944725 0520944720 9780520260443 0520260449 9780520260436 0520260430 1282359924 9781282359925 9786612359927 6612359927 |