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Ourselves Unborn : A History of the Fetus in Modern America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199717293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ourselves UnbornDDC classification:
  • 362.198/32
LOC classification:
  • RG600.D83 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fetal Stories -- Chapter 1: Discovering Fetal Life, 1870s-1920s -- Chapter 2: Interpreting Fetal Bodies, 1930s-1970s -- Chapter 3: Defining Fetal Personhood, 1973-1976 -- Chapter 4: Defending Fetal Rights, 1970s-1990s -- Chapter 5: Debating Fetal Pain, 1984-2007 -- Epilogue: Fetal Meanings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fetal Stories -- Chapter 1: Discovering Fetal Life, 1870s-1920s -- Chapter 2: Interpreting Fetal Bodies, 1930s-1970s -- Chapter 3: Defining Fetal Personhood, 1973-1976 -- Chapter 4: Defending Fetal Rights, 1970s-1990s -- Chapter 5: Debating Fetal Pain, 1984-2007 -- Epilogue: Fetal Meanings -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.

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