Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

by Susan Merrill Squier

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082233366X

ISBN13:9780822333661

Release Date:December 2004

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 8.7"

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