Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Washington (D.C.) > Carnegie Collection of Embryology.
Embryo
Kultur
Embryonenforschung
Medical anthropology.
Human reproductive technology > Social aspects.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Ethnologie.
Procreation medicalement assistee > Aspect social.
Tissus (Histologie) > Culture > Aspect social.
Embryologie humaine > Aspect social.
Embryology > history
Embryo Research > history
Embryo Research > ethics
Collections
Anthropology, Cultural
Tissue culture > Social aspects.
Embryology, Human > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780520944725

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