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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 by Lennart Nilsson from 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.
Fetal Positions demonstrates the importance of history for framing and understanding contemporary political issues, and, by historicizing heterosexuality and reproduction, it contributes to the emerging study of the history of sexuality.
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Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (Writing Science)
March 1, 1997, Stanford University Press
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in English
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Fetal positions: individualism, science, visuality
1996, Stanford University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-149) and index.
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