Monica J Casper

The Making of the Unborn Patient

A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines two events in the second half of the 20th century: the emergence of foetal surgery as a medical specialty and the debut of the unborn patient. The author shows how biomedical work has intersected with reproductive politics to generate cultural meanings of foetuses, women and medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525167
• ISBN-10: 0813525160
• Artikelnr.: 22000707

Autorenporträt

Casper, Monica J

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to fetal matters
Breaching the womb, a history of the unborn patient
A hybrid practive, traffic between the laboratory and the operating room
Working on (and around) the unborn patients negotiating social order in a
fetal treatment unit
Clinical trials in fetal surgery : making, protecting, and contesting human
subjects
Heroic moms and materal environments, pregnant women on the final frontier
Beyond the operating room
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author