Ourselves unborn
Subtitle: a history of the fetus in modern America
Publisher: Oxford; Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780195323436
Copyright date: 2011
Description: Traces how Americans from widely different backgrounds have fought over the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.--from publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fetal stories; title: Discovering fetal life, 1870s-1920s; title: Interpreting fetal bodies, 1930s-1970s; title: Defining fetal personhood, 1973-1976; title: Defending fetal rights, 1970s-1990s; title: Debating fetal pain, 1984-2007; title: Epilogue: fetal meanings