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

by Lorna Weir

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Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0415392586

ISBN13:9780415392587

Release Date:August 2006

Publisher:Routledge

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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