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The Blue King (Hardcover)
Arthur W Hoffmann Ed D; Illustrated by Lynn Morgan
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The Blue King (Paperback)
Arthur W Hoffmann Ed D; Illustrated by Lynn Morgan
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"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 politics.
Until the embryo collecting project - which she follows from the
Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling
homes, and all the way to China - most people had no idea what
human embryos looked like. But by the 1950s, modern citizens saw in
embryos an image of 'ourselves unborn', and embryology had
developed a biologically based story about how we came to be.
Morgan 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 medical
career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project,
Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises
the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean.
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