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Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine

Author
Squier, Susan Merrill.
Title
Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.
Format
Book
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Description
xvi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index. Paperback.
Contents
  • The uses of literature for feminist science studies: tracing liminal lives
  • The cultured cell: life and death at Strangeways
  • The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire
  • Giant babies: graphing growth in the early twentieth century
  • Incubabies and rejuvenates: the traffic between technologies of reproduction and age extension
  • Transplant medicine and transformative narrative
  • Liminal performances of aging: from replacement to regeneration
  • Coda: the pluripotent discourse of stem cells: liminality, relexivity, and literature.
Kinsey subjects
Medicine history. Reproduction. Cloning.
ISBN
0822333813 (cloth : alk. paper) 082233366X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
600 S64 l4 2004
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute