Icons of Life : a Cultural History of Human Embryos.

By:

Morgan, Lynn

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: CA : University of California Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520944725
0520944720
9780520260443
0520260449
9780520260436
0520260430
1282359924
9781282359925
9786612359927
6612359927

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos.DDC classification:

306.461

LOC classification:

QM601

NLM classification:

2009 J-812
QS 611.1

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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.

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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 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.