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Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos by Lynn Marie Morgan; ProQuest (Firm) is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
What is Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos about?
Lynn Morgan traces the remarkable story of the human embryo collecting project at John Hopkins Dept. of Anatomy during the early 20th century. She shows how the science of embryology came into existence & how the embryo entered Western culture as an image of 'ourselves unborn'.
Who reads Icons of Life : A Cultural History of Human Embryos?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Lynn Marie Morgan; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520260443
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Technology, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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