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litsci-l-digest        Monday, January 10 2005        Volume 01 : Number
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     Fw: UCLA Gender/Genomics symposium, Sun 30 Jan
     Forwarded Book Announcement: Susan Squier's Latest

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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:23:32 -0800
From: "Carol Ann Wald" 
Subject: Fw: UCLA Gender/Genomics symposium, Sun 30 Jan

The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics announces a symposium on:

Gender and Genomics:  Sex, Science and Society


9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
UCLA Campus, Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons


For additional program information and directions, visit:

http://www.socgen.ucla.edu/symposium.htm

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:27:17 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Forwarded Book Announcement: Susan Squier's Latest

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>>> Dafina Blacksher Diabate ddiabate@dukeupress.edu> 01/07/05 03:47PM
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Liminal Lives
Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
By Susan Merrill Squier

For more information visit the books website
http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=3D8223-3366-x

Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in
the =
human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantationthese 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 of the medical transformation of the entire human life span,
Susan =
Merrill Squier argues that fiction particularly science fiction - serves
=
as a space where worries about ethically and socially charged scientific
=
procedures are worked through. Squier shows that in the midst of new =
phenomena such as these, literature helps us imagine new ways of living.
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It allows us to reflect on the possibilities and perils of our liminal =
lives.



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>>> Dafina Blacksher Diabate ddiabate@dukeu=
press.edu>
01/07/05 03:47PM >>
Liminal LivesImagining the Human at the =
Frontiers of
BiomedicineBy Susan Merrill Squier For more information =
visit
the books websitehttp://www=
..dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=3D8223-3366-xEmbryo
adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human
=
body,
intra- and inter-species organ transplantationthese 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 of the =
medical
transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier
argues =
that
fiction particularly science fiction - serves as a space where
=
worries
about ethically and socially charged scientific procedures are worked =
through.
Squier shows that in the midst of new phenomena such as these,
literature =
helps
us imagine new ways of living. It allows us to reflect on the
possibilities=
and
perils of our liminal lives. 

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