Liminal lives : imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine / Susan Merrill Squier.

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.

xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-334) and index.

The uses of literature for feminist science studies: tracing liminal lives -- The cultured cell: life and death at Strangeways -- The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire -- Giant babies: graphing growth in the early twentieth century -- Incubabies and rejuvenates: the traffic between technologies of reproduction and age extension -- Transplant medicine and transformative narrative -- Liminal performances of aging: from replacement to regeneration -- Coda: the pluripotent discourse of stem cells: liminality, relexivity, and literature.