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Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Lynn Morgan
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Description for Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Paperback. Tells the story of an early 20th-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect embryos for scientific study. This work explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's career. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFF; JHM; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452. A Cultural History of Human Embryos. 328 pages, illustrations. Tells the story of an early 20th-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect embryos for scientific study. This work explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's career. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFF; JHM; MBS. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight: 454.
"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 the way to China - most people had no idea what human ... Read more
"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 the way to China - most people had no idea what human ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520260443
SKU
V9780520260443
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About Lynn Morgan
Lynn M. Morgan is Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and is coeditor (with Meredith W. Michaels) of Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions.
Reviews for Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
"A remarkable work that seems destined to have a significant impact both within and well beyond anthropology."
Janelle S. Taylor, University of Washington American Anthropologist "Fascinating and rigorously documented... Recommended." Choice "Morgan's book is important. Icons of Life provides a crucial resource for historians of medicine, anatomy, science and reproduction." Isis "Morgan has done a masterful and truly respectful ... Read more
Janelle S. Taylor, University of Washington American Anthropologist "Fascinating and rigorously documented... Recommended." Choice "Morgan's book is important. Icons of Life provides a crucial resource for historians of medicine, anatomy, science and reproduction." Isis "Morgan has done a masterful and truly respectful ... Read more