| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Washington (D.C.) -- Carnegie Collection of Embryology. |
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Embryology, Human -- Social aspects.
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Embryology, Human. |
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Social aspects. |
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Tissue culture -- Social aspects.
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Tissue culture. |
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects. |
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Embryology -- history. |
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Anthropology, Cultural. |
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Collections as Topic. |
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Embryo Research -- ethics. |
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Embryo Research -- history. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
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Geschichte 1887-2009 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Assisted reproductive technology. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Morgan, Lynn. Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos. CA : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520260436 |
| ISBN |
9780520944725 (electronic book) |
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0520944720 (electronic book) |
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9780520260443 (paper) |
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0520260449 (paper) |
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9780520260436 (cloth) |
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0520260430 (cloth) |
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1282359924 |
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9781282359925 |
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