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Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Susan Merrill Squier
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Description for Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Paperback. A study of the mutually constituitive relations between Western biomedicine and Ango- American literature in the 20th and early 21st centuries, tracing the interwoven processes by which both fields have transformed the course of human life. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that fiction—particularly science fiction—serves as a space where worries about ethically and socially charged scientific procedures are worked through. Indeed, she demonstrates that in many instances fiction has anticipated and paved the way for far-reaching biomedical changes. Squier ... Read more
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that fiction—particularly science fiction—serves as a space where worries about ethically and socially charged scientific procedures are worked through. Indeed, she demonstrates that in many instances fiction has anticipated and paved the way for far-reaching biomedical changes. Squier ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822333661
SKU
V9780822333661
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About Susan Merrill Squier
Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; editor of Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (published by Duke University Press); and coeditor of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the ... Read more
Reviews for Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
“Liminal Lives offers very strong and important theoretical insights into relationships between scientific knowledge and practice and literary production. Its innovative methodology creates possibilities for better communication and exchange between scientific, literary, and social scientific knowledge in a way that will be very useful to others interested in interdisciplinary science studies.”—Catherine Waldby, author of AIDS and The Body Politic: Biomedicine ... Read more