Article
Microchimerism in the Mother(land): Blurring the Borders of Body and Nation
2010-09-01
Abstract excerpt
This article traces the ubiquitous geopolitical metaphors used by researchers in the field of pregnancy-related microchimerism. In this research domain, immunologists and medical geneticists locate ‘non-self’ cells in women by marking Y chromosomes in cells derived from their sons. In the course of this research trajectory, experiments have yielded a number of surprises, beginning with the very presence of these c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a21e36ca-4367-588c-8208-b9a9b5a600bb
- DOI
- 10.1177/1357034x10373404