Morgan Lynn M.:
Icons Of Life
A Cultural History Of Human Embryos
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Paperback, 328 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780520260443
ISBN-10: 0520260449
List price: £14.95
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Icons Of Life
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.
