| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. On the threshold of the living subject; 2. A genealogy of perinatal mortality; 3. Health beyond risk: A midwifery ethos in prenatal care; 4. Legal fiction and reality effects: Evidence of perinatal risk; 5. Child welfare at the perinatal threshold: Making orders protecting fetuses; 6. Biopolitics at the threshold of the living subject; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
EuroAmerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. This book argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of 'perinatal mortality' referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prenatal care -- Social aspects
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Fetus.
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Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Biopolitics.
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Fetus
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Biopolitics
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Fetus
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Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Prenatal care -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203966716 |
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0203966716 |
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