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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sara Dubow (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Williams College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780190610715ISBN 10: 0190610719 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 13 April 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fetal Stories Ch 1: Discovering Fetal Life, 1870s-1920s Ch 2: Interpreting Fetal Bodies, 1930s-1970s Ch 3: Defining Fetal Personhood, 1973-1976 Ch 4: Defending Fetal Rights: 1970s-1990s Ch 5: Debating Fetal Pain, 1984-2007 Epilogue: Fetal Meanings Notes BibliographyReviewsDubow offers up an important contribution to the field, forcing the reader to contend both with why the fetus is such a fascinating topic for investigation and the deeper social tensions expressed in each conversation about the objects. Journal of the History of Medicine The great strength of this book is the author's wide-angle lens on the human fetus across more than a century of American culture and politics. Sara Dubow offers a thoroughly researched, elegantly written, and comprehensive biography of the unborn. Readers interested in the history of medicine, science, and technology, as well as the history of women's health and reproduction, will find much to savor here. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Dubow's history of the fetus as symbol is a major addition to our history of politics, gender, the body, and reproduction in America. To understand American politics and culture since the nineteenth century requires grasping American's long standing interest in the unborn and the many uses of the concept of fetus. Dubow gives the unknowable unborn a history, thus revealing that today's fetus is a construction that grew out of specific political circumstances. Journal of American History [I]lluminating, even gripping...Dubow has provided an indispensable contribution to US political thought. Women's Review of Books A nuanced analysis...Dubow's work makes a significant contribution to our understanding of fetal history...This work will quickly become a standard in the field. Dubow places fetal history within a broad historical context that makes the book valuable to scholars interested in twentieth-century gender, race, politics, and medicine. American Historical Review Dubow's book is a reminder of the moral dilemmas, the politicisation and the sometimes shameful decisions that have been taken over the years.This careful book allows the reader to navigate a course through highly-politicised waters. The Economist Provocative Slate Splendidly informative. Commonweal Dubow offers up an important contribution to the field, forcing the reader to contend both with why the fetus is such a fascinating topic for investigation and the deeper social tensions expressed in each conversation about the objects. --Journal of the History of Medicine The great strength of this book is the author's wide-angle lens on the human fetus across more than a century of American culture and politics. Sara Dubow offers a thoroughly researched, elegantly written, and comprehensive biography of the unborn. Readers interested in the history of medicine, science, and technology, as well as the history of women's health and reproduction, will find much to savor here. --Bulletin of the History of Medicine Dubow's history of the fetus as symbol is a major addition to our history of politics, gender, the body, and reproduction in America. To understand American politics and culture since the nineteenth century requires grasping American's long standing interest in the unborn and the many uses of the concept of fetus. Dubow gives the unknowable 'unborn' a history, thus revealing that today's fetus is a construction that grew out of specific political circumstances. --Journal of American History [I]lluminating, even gripping...Dubow has provided an indispensable contribution to US political thought. --Women's Review of Books A nuanced analysis...Dubow's work makes a significant contribution to our understanding of fetal history...This work will quickly become a standard in the field. Dubow places fetal history within a broad historical context that makes the book valuable to scholars interested in twentieth-century gender, race, politics, and medicine. --American Historical Review Dubow's book is a reminder of the moral dilemmas, the politicisation and the sometimes shameful decisions that have been taken over the years.This careful book allows the reader to navigate a course through highly-politicised waters. --The Economist Provocative... --Slate Splendidly informative. --Commonweal Author InformationSara Dubow is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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