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Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

Squier, Susan Merrill

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ISBN10: 0822333813
ISBN13: 9780822333814
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 7 2004
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 uses the anthropological concept of liminality--the state of being on the threshold of change, no longer one thing yet not quite another--to explore how, from the early twentieth century forward, fiction and science together have altered not only the concept of the human being but the contours of human life.

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