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Author Squier, Susan Merrill.

Title Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  RA418 .S76 2004    Available  ---
Description xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-334) and index.
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.
Subject Social medicine.
Social medicine.
Medical ethics.
Medical ethics.
Medical technology.
Medical technology.
Human reproductive technology.
Human reproductive technology.
Genre/Form Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Subject Assisted reproductive technology.
ISBN 082233366X paperback alkaline paper
0822333813 cloth alkaline paper