| Contents |
Skeleton in the closet and fetuses in the basement -- Embryo visions -- Building a collection -- Inside the embryo production factory -- Traffic in embryo babies -- Embryo tales -- From dead embryos to icons of life -- Demise of the Mount Holyoke collection. |
| Summary |
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'. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008050716 |
| ISBN | 9780520260436 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520260430 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520260443 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520260449 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
