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Author Morgan, Lynn

Title Icons of Life : a Cultural History of Human Embryos
Published CA : University of California Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
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
Analysis 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Washington (D.C.) -- Carnegie Collection of Embryology. swd
Subject 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
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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008050716
ISBN 9780520944725
0520944720
9780520260443
0520260449
9780520260436
0520260430
1282359924
9781282359925
9786612359927
6612359927