Liminal lives: imagining the human at the frontiers of biomedicine

Abstract

Introduction: Networking liminality 1. The uses of literature for feminist science studies: Tracing liminal lives 2. Life and death at Strangeways: The cultured cell 3. The hybrid embryo and xenogenic desire 4. Giant babies: Graphing growth in the early twentieth century 5. Incubabies and rejuvenates: The traffic between technologies of reproduction and age-extension 6. Transplant medicine and transformative narrative 7. Liminal performances of aging: From replacement to regeneration Coda: The pluripotent discourse of stem cells: Liminality, literature and reflexivity