Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos

by Morgan (Author), Morgan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $45.38

  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.