Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Networking Liminality -- 1. The Uses of Literature for Feminist Science Studies: Tracing Liminal Lives -- 2. The Cultured Cell: Life and Death at Strangeways -- 3. The Hybrid Embryo and Xenogenic Desire -- 4. Giant Babies: Graphing Growth in the Early Twentieth Century -- 5. Incubabies and Rejuvenates: The Traffic between Technologies of Reproduction and Age Extension -- 6. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative -- 7. Liminal Performances of Aging: From Replacement to Regeneration -- Coda: The Pluripotent Discourse of Stem Cells: Liminality, Reflexivity, and Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
