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Author Arni, Caroline, author

Title Of human born : fetal lives, 1800-1950 / Caroline Arni ; translated by Kate Sturge
Published Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2024
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Description 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations
Contents Paris 1870/71 : trauma in the womb -- Children, fetal life, and the prenatal -- The unborn and the human sciences -- The life of the fetus -- Pregnancy as relation -- Prenatal danger -- How the pregnant woman feels -- If the fetus senses -- What the environment does -- Thresholds in time -- Of human born
Summary "This book digs into the rich and mostly unexplored history of how the human sciences approached the unborn in terms of "fetal life" by extending their gaze and research to what they called "the period before birth.""-- Provided by publisher
"A new history of the concept of fetal life in the human sciencesAt a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman's body has, once again, become a fraught issue-from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and assessments of fetal risk-Of Human Born presents the largely unknown history of how the human sciences came to imagine the unborn in terms of "life before birth."Caroline Arni shows how these sciences created the concept of "fetal life" by way of experimenting on animals, pregnant women, and newborns; how they worried about the influence of the expectant mother's living conditions; and how they lingered on the question of the beginnings of human subjectivity. Such were the concerns of physiologists, pediatricians, psychologists, and psychoanalysts as they advanced the novel discipline of embryology while, at the same time, grappling with age-old questions about the coming-into-being of a human person. Of Human Born thus draws attention to the fundamental way in which modern approaches to the unborn have been intertwined with the configuration of "the human" in the age of scientific empiricism. Arni revises the narrative that the "modern embryo" is quintessentially an embryo disembedded from the pregnant woman's body. On the contrary, she argues that the concept of fetal life cannot be separated from its dependency on the maternal organism, countering the rhetorical discourses that have fueled the recent rollback of abortion rights in the United States"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of Pränatale Zeiten. Das Ungeborene und die Humanwissenschaften, 1800-1950,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the German
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2024)
Subject Prenatal diagnosis -- History -- 19th century
Prenatal diagnosis -- History -- 20th century
Heredity -- History -- 19th century
Heredity -- History -- 20th century
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology.
MEDICAL / Epidemiology.
Heredity
Prenatal diagnosis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sturge, Kate, translator
LC no. 2023030112
ISBN 9781942130901
1942130902
Other Titles Pränatale Zeiten. English
Fetal lives, 1800-1950