"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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能跟她上課真的很榮幸 也要跟她學習對憤怒的控制和對衝突的理解。basically a genealogy of embryology built up with extensive research and some incredible coincidences. I say this is a book written for biologists, for there’s almost no anthropological jargon in it, and it offers a clear view of how any social issues came to belong, legally and metaphorically, to medical science.
评分能跟她上課真的很榮幸 也要跟她學習對憤怒的控制和對衝突的理解。basically a genealogy of embryology built up with extensive research and some incredible coincidences. I say this is a book written for biologists, for there’s almost no anthropological jargon in it, and it offers a clear view of how any social issues came to belong, legally and metaphorically, to medical science.
评分能跟她上課真的很榮幸 也要跟她學習對憤怒的控制和對衝突的理解。basically a genealogy of embryology built up with extensive research and some incredible coincidences. I say this is a book written for biologists, for there’s almost no anthropological jargon in it, and it offers a clear view of how any social issues came to belong, legally and metaphorically, to medical science.
评分能跟她上課真的很榮幸 也要跟她學習對憤怒的控制和對衝突的理解。basically a genealogy of embryology built up with extensive research and some incredible coincidences. I say this is a book written for biologists, for there’s almost no anthropological jargon in it, and it offers a clear view of how any social issues came to belong, legally and metaphorically, to medical science.
评分能跟她上課真的很榮幸 也要跟她學習對憤怒的控制和對衝突的理解。basically a genealogy of embryology built up with extensive research and some incredible coincidences. I say this is a book written for biologists, for there’s almost no anthropological jargon in it, and it offers a clear view of how any social issues came to belong, legally and metaphorically, to medical science.
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