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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 / A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement; 2 / Embryo Visions; 3 / Building a Collection; 4 / Inside the Embryo Production Factory; 5 / Traffic in "Embryo Babies"; 6 / Embryo Tales; 7 / From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life; 8 / The Demise of the Mount Holyoke Collection; Notes; References; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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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