Icons of life : a cultural history of human embryos / Lynn M. Morgan.

  • Morgan, Lynn Marie.
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[2009], ©2009
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index.

Contents

Skeleton in the closet and fetuses in the basement -- Embryo visions -- Building a collection -- Inside the embryo production factory -- Traffic in embryo babies -- Embryo tales -- From dead embryos to icons of life -- Demise of the Mount Holyoke collection.

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    History of Medicine
    DC /MOR
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ISBN

  • 9780520260436
  • 0520260430
  • 9780520260443
  • 0520260449