Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
by
Susan Merrill Squier
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact...