Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos

Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
ISBN-10
0520260449
ISBN-13
9780520260443
Category
Social Science
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2009-09-09
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Lynn Morgan

Description

Lynn Morgan traces the remarkable story of the human embryo collecting project at John Hopkins Dept. of Anatomy during the early 20th century. She shows how the science of embryology came into existence & how the embryo entered Western culture as an image of 'ourselves unborn'.

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