Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos

by Lynn M. Morgan and Lynn Morgan

Book Overview

Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260449
• ISBN13: 9780520260443
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"