Research Catalog

Title

Pregnancy, risk, and biopolitics : on the threshold of the living subject / Lorna Weir.

Author

Weir, Lorna, 1952-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Details

Description

viii, 241 p. : ill., forms; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject occurred in the 1950s with the novel concept of "perinatal mortality" referring to death of either the fetus or the newborn just prior to, during and after birth." "Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics calls attention to the significance of population politics, especially the reduction of infant mortality, for the unsettling of birth as the entry to human status." "This book is an accessible study of biopolitics which is of interest to students and researchers in anthropology, health studies, history, legal studies, science studies, sociology, and women's studies."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Transformations: Thinking through feminism

Uniform Title

Transformations.

Subject

• Prenatal care > Social aspects
• Fetus
• Fetus > Legal status, laws, etc
• Biopolitics
• Fetal Viability
• Perinatal Care > legislation & jurisprudence
• Bioethical Issues
• Public Policy
• Risk Assessment
• Fetus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On the threshold of the living subject -- A genealogy of perinatal mortality -- Health beyond risk : a midwifery ethos in prenatal care -- Legal fiction and reality effects : evidence of perinatal risk -- Child welfare at the perinatal threshold : making orders protecting fetuses -- Biopolitics at the threshold of the living subject.

ISBN

• 0415392578 (paper back)
• 0415392586 (hard back)

LCCN

^^2006004013

OCLC

• 63680005
• SCSB-9971009

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library