The Embryo: A recent Invention?

Authors

  • Ute Frietsch Berlin/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Kulturwissenschaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/198

Keywords:

Bevölkerungspolitik, Körper, Neuzeit, Schwangerschaft, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

10 interdisciplinary contributions dealing with the conflicting fields between personal experiences and the biologisation of pregnancy in modern times. This anthology published by the Max Planck Institute for History features a variety of contributions which came into being during a conference of the international and interdisciplinary working group on the history of birth. The conference took place in Göttingen in 1999. The anthology features the experiences with pregnancy of different women as well as scientific perspectives on embryos, women’s bodies, and societal bodies by theologians, anatomists, physicians, and jurists. The different contributions employ different perspectives, time periods, and scales. Case studies introduce and highlight diverging and converging perspectives on the history of the body, population studies, and biology, and explain how the advancement of science as well as societal processes caused pregnancy to become biologised in modern times.

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Published

2003-07-01

Issue

No. 10 (2003): Kindheit und Jugend

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2003 Ute Frietsch

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