Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Contributors: Lynn M. Morgan (Editor); Meredith Wilson Michaels (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812216899
Subjects: Feminism; Materno-fetal medicine; Imaging; Feminist theory; Social Science; Women's rights; Sociology; Women's Studies - General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Medical anthropology; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Fetus; Human reproduction
First sentence: "Not everything that comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being," wrote the German physician and medico-legal expert Wilhelm Gottfried von Ploucquet (1744-1814) in 1788 in a treatise on "Violent Ways of Dying," where he dealt with infanticide.