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Fetal Positions - Individualism, Science, Visuality (Hardcover, Revised)
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Fetal Positions - Individualism, Science, Visuality (Hardcover, Revised)
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This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of
visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and
the contemporary abortion debates. With its close interplay of
visual and verbal texts, it traces both the history of fetal images
from the sixteenth century onward (including the classic Life
magazine photographs of Lennart Nilsson in 1965) and the
consequences of how obstetrical and embryological knowledge was
represented over time in Europe--to both specialists and the
public--as medical knowledge came to be produced and understood
through anatomical observation.
As the abortion debates witness, perhaps no flesh is more
overdetermined with cultural meaning than the female reproductive
body. Language and rhetoric have had an important role in framing
the debates and shaping attitudes: "pro-choice" versus "abortion,"
"anti-abortion" rather than "pro-life," "fetus" rather than "baby"
or "unborn child," "uterus" rather than "womb." How visual modes of
representing obstetrical and embryological information, which have
similar consequences in forming both public and professional
opinion, shape the politics of the abortion debates has until
recently received very little attention.
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