Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden : Medicine, Politics, and Public Controversy, 1530-2020 /
In this timely and richly illustrated book, a group of multidisciplinary scholars explores the uses and handlings of fetuses, still-born, reproductive organs, and pregnant bodies for knowledge production, including the development of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, in Sweden over five hundred years. B...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Clio Medica ;
107.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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Call Number: R853.H8
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values
- Solveig Jülich
- 1 Caring for the Liminal Dead: Lutheran Emergency Baptism and Stillbirth, ca. 1530-1720
- Tove Paulsson Holmberg
- 2 Between Blood Clots and Corpses: Valuations of Fetal Remains in Early Modern Courts
- Anton Runesson
- 3 Beyond the Human Fetus: Monstrous Births and Emerging Biopolitics around 1800
- Maja Bondestam
- 4 Visualizing the Early Stages of Life: Embryology and Fetal Anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, 1820s-1920s
- Eva Åhrén
- 5 'Pelves of Various Nations': Race and Sex in a Mid-nineteenth-Century Obstetric Collection
- Helena Franzén
- 6 Embryology and the Clinic: Early to Mid-twentieth-Century Stories of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Fetal Collecting
- Solveig Jülich
- 7 Fetuses as Instruments of Health: Polio Vaccine and the Nation in the Postwar Period
- Solveig Jülich and Isa Dussauge
- 8 The Moral Imperative of Fetal Research: Framing the Scientific Use of Aborted Fetuses in the 1960s and 1970s
- Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg
- 9 From the Laboratory to the Parliament: Valuing Abortion Pills in the 1960s
- Morag Ramsey
- 10 Thalidomide in the Welfare State: Rehabilitation and Contested Normality
- Maria Björkman
- 11 Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960s
- Francis Lee
- 12 Navigating between Risk Discourses: on the Early Adoption and Development of Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Lund, ca. 1960-1980
- Annika Berg
- 13 Visual Wonders and Shocks: Images of Human Fetuses in Television Programs on Abortion and Fetal Research, 1969-1988
- Elisabet Björklund
- 14 The Moral Landscape of Prenatal Diagnosis
- Anna Tunlid
- Epilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research: The Swedish Case
- Solveig Jülich
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.