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Of Human Born: Fetal Lives, 1800 1950
1942130899 rar A new history of the concept of fetal life in the human sciences At a time when the becoming of a human being in a womans body has, once again, become a fraught issuefrom abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and assessments of fetal riskOf 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 mothers 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. Read more