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OverviewTraditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of ‘perinatal mortality’ referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth. Weir’s book gives a new feminist approach to pregnancy in advanced modernity focusing on the governance of population. She traces the introduction of the perinatal threshold into child welfare and tort law through expert testimony on foetal risk, sketching the clash at law between the birth and perinatal thresholds of the living subject. Her book makes original empirical and theoretical contributions to the history of the present (Foucauldian research), feminism, and social studies of risk, and she conceptualizes a new historical focus for the history of the present: the threshold of the living subject. Calling attention to the significance of population politics, especially the reduction of infant mortality, for the unsettling of the birth threshold, this book argues that risk techniques are heterogeneous, contested with expertise, and plural in their political effects. Interview research with midwives shows their critical relation to using risk assessment in clinical practice. An original and accessible study, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers across many disciplines. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lorna WeirPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780415392570ISBN 10: 0415392578 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 27 July 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Lorna Weir's Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of pregnancy discourse. <p>-- Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2009 Lorna Weir's Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of pregnancy discourse. -- Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2009 <p> Lorna Weir s Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of pregnancy discourse. <p>-- Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2009 Author InformationYork University, Toronto, Canada Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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