By Deborah Lupton
Within the modern international, the unborn - human embryos and foetuses - are hugely public and contested figures. Their visible photographs look throughout quite a lot of boards, from YouTube movies to being pregnant handbooks. they've got turn into advertisement commodities as a part of the IVF undefined, reproductive tourism and stem cellphone learn and regenerative drugs. The unborn are the point of interest of severe debates pertaining to options of personhood and humanness, specifically in terms of abortion politics and the use and disposal of embryos created outdoors the human physique. The Social Worlds of the Unborn is the 1st book-length paintings to debate all of those matters and extra, drawing on social and cultural thought and examine and empirical study to take action. it is going to be of curiosity to teachers and scholars in a mess of disciplines, together with sociology, anthropology, philosophy, bioethics, gender reviews, media and cultural reports and technology and know-how reports.
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The pregnancy was described in these texts as happening to the foetus and not to the woman (Van der Ploeg 2001, 2004). Medical texts also commonly represented the prenatal period as conterminous with the postnatal period, representing pregnant women as already ‘mothers’ with individuated infants, albeit still in utero. Thus the embodied and ontological distinctions between the foetus in utero and the newborn infant tended to be erased, further supporting the concept of the foetus as already an infant (Van der Ploeg 2001).
They also completely erase the maternal body from the birth process and present a frictionless trajectory in which the microscopic multi-celled organism becomes a months-old infant in seconds. The nine-month long work of the maternal body in conceiving, gestating and giving birth to the infant, and the interembodied nature of this work, completely disappears. It is as if the maternal body never existed and does not need to exist to produce the infant. When the maternal body is acknowledged, it tends to be represented as merely as an ‘environment’ for the development of the precious unborn entity.
The cryogenically preserved embryo occupies a particularly ambiguous ontological state. It is not immediately clear whether this type of embryo is alive or dead, particularly if from a clinical perspective its development is viewed as ‘arrested’ via cryopreservation. Such embryos retain the potential to develop further if implanted in a uterus and thus their potential is suspended rather than being extinguished (Ellison and Karpin 2011). Like the donor cadaver, this type of embryo therefore occupies a marginal state of aliveness, not quite living and not quite dead, not quite human, not quite non-human (Ellison and Karpin 2011, Karpin 2006, Waldby and Squier 2003).
