Article ID: CBB000701049

“Crook” Pipettes: Embryonic Emigrations from Agriculture to Reproductive Biomedicine (2007)

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Franklin, Sarah Brooks (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 38
Pages: 358--373


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on agricultural and reproductive technologies
Language: English

While cloning, stem cells, and regenerative medicine are often imagined in a futurial idiom---as expectations, hype, hope and promises---this article approaches the remaking of genealogy in such contexts from a historical route. Through a series of somewhat disparate historical connections linking Australian sheep to the development of clinical IVF and the cloning of Dolly at the Roslin Institute in Scotland in 1996, this article explores the linkages through which agriculture, embryology, and reproductive biomedicine are thickly intertwined. Key to this examination is not only the history of experimental sheep breeding, and its somewhat unexpectedly genealogical connections to (Australian) national identity (`wool in the veins'), but also the re-emergence of a distinctive frontier ethos in the context of assisted conception, and later human embryonic stem cell derivation. I have set this scene of genealogical interconnection against the criss-crossing traffic between Britain and Australia, and the wool trade, to emphasise the importance of global, as well as local, connections in the bloodlines of animals such as Dolly. In sum, this article examines the idea of the `biological frontier' by exploring its histories as a means to offset the assumption that this frequently encountered idiom describes a future that is, or must be, by definition, unknown and unknowable.

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Description “Explores the linkages through which agriculture, embryology, and reproductive biomedicine are thickly intertwined.” (from the abstract)


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Article Wilmot, Sarah (2007) Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 303). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Balistreri, Maurizio
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Michelle Millar Fisher
Karl Bruno
Sandra P. González-Santos
Amber Winick
Concepts
Reproductive technologies
Agriculture
Breeding
Reproductive medicine
Cattle
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
North America
Australia
Netherlands
Sweden
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