Icons of Life : a Cultural History of Human Embryos.
Material type:
TextPublication details: CA : University of California Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520944725
- 0520944720
- 9780520260443
- 0520260449
- 9780520260436
- 0520260430
- 1282359924
- 9781282359925
- 9786612359927
- 6612359927
- Washington (D.C.) -- Carnegie Collection of Embryology
- Embryology, Human -- Social aspects
- Tissue culture -- Social aspects
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Medical anthropology
- Ethnology
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Collections
- Embryo Research -- ethics
- Embryo Research -- history
- Embryology -- history
- Embryologie humaine -- Aspect social
- Tissus (Histologie) -- Culture -- Aspect social
- Procréation médicalement assistée -- Aspect social
- Ethnologie
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General
- Ethnology
- Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects
- Medical anthropology
- Embryonenforschung
- Kultur
- Embryo
- Geschichte
- Geschichte 1887-2009
- 20th century american history
- 20th century scientific history
- baltimore foundling homes
- biology
- carnegie institute of washington
- embryo babies
- embryo collection
- embryo production factory
- embryology
- fetal politics
- gertrude stein
- healthcare
- icons of life
- johns hopkins anatomy department
- maternal politics
- medial treatment
- medical care
- mount holyoke collection
- ourselves unborn
- pregnancy
- pregnant women
- science
- scientific study
- social artifacts
- specimen collecting
- united states of america
- 306.461
- QM601
- 2009 J-812
- QS 611.1
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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.
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.
Print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index.
English.
Added to collection customer.56279.3