Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Contributors: Lynn Marie Morgan (Editor); Meredith W. Michaels (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780812234961
Subjects: Imaging; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminist theory; Abortion (Sociological Aspects); Feminism; Abortion & Birth Control; Social Science; Sociology; Fetus; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Materno-fetal medicine
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.