Icons of Life

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'.

• | Author: Morgan
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: September 09, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520260449
• | ISBN-13: 9780520260443