Review of: Caroline Arni: Pränatale Zeiten. Das Ungeborene und die Humanwissenschaften (1800-1950). Basel, Berlin: Schwabe Verlag 2018.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/1273Keywords:
Anthropologie, Generationen, Kinder, Körper, Moderne, Mutterschaft, Politik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, SchwangerschaftAbstract
The Basel historian Caroline Arni presents an inspiring and material-rich study of how human science tapped the unborn child as a knowledge object in the 19th century. She elaborates on the contributions of fetal physiology, embryology, psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis and reconstructs which historical cycles were subject to the idea of a maternal influence on the development of the unborn child. Convincingly she shows how the concept of biological development raised unsolvable questions about what makes a human subject. This most readable scientific-historical study also offers a large number of suggestions for the gender-theoretical research into pregnancy and childbirth in the present.
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