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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.03.004
关键词
Embryology; Cloning; Pastoralism; Frontier; Sheep breeding; Dolly; Genealogy
资金
- Medical Research Council [G0300504] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [G0300504] Funding Source: UKRI
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. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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