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SUMMARY:Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900 -
  Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:In the decades after World War Two\, routine obstetric monitor
 ing and debate over abortion law reform provoked intense controversy over 
 the public meanings of the fetus as patient\, person and icon. In order to
  trace the rise of these identities over the long term\, we need to recove
 r the locally and historically specific ways in which the fetus and its re
 lationships to women have been constructed. This paper uses a range of sou
 rces drawn from a single city\, Edinburgh\, at the turn of the twentieth c
 entury\, to reconstruct understandings of pregnancy and the unborn in a cu
 lture in which many present attitudes and assumptions about 'antenatal aff
 airs' took shape. Court records for the sensational trial of a woman charg
 ed with procuring abortion and an obstetric physician's diary will help to
  distinguish lay and medical views.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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