Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics Free

Author: Lorna Weir
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0415392586
Category: Medical

Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject (Transformations)

Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. Download Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics medical books for free.
However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of 'perinatal mortality' referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth. Weir's book gives a new feminist approach to pregnancy in advanced modernity focusing on the governance of population. She traces the introduction of the perinatal threshold into child welfare and tort law through expert testimony Get Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics our bestseller medical books.

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