Lupton, Deborah, author.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-146) and index.
• Machine generated contents note: 1.Contingencies of the Unborn — Personhood, humanness and the unborn — Histories of the unborn — The importance of definitions — Concluding comments — 2.Imaging the Unborn — Obstetric ultrasound: from medical diagnostic tool to ̀baby pictures’ — Photojournalism and computer visualisations — The unborn as cultural artefacts — The politics of unborn imagery — Concluding comments — 3.The Unborn within the Self: Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy — Ambiguities of pregnancy: the two-in-one body — How pregnant women conceptualise the unborn — The role of imaging technologies in pregnant subjectivity — Attaching/detaching: the maternal/unborn ̀bond’ — Concluding comments — 4.Death, Disposal and the Unborn — Cultural variants in attitudes towards abortion — Women’s experiences of elective abortion — Decisions about disposal — Bioscientific research and definitions of the unborn — Mourning and memorialising unborn death –
• Contents note continued: Concluding comments — 5.The Endangered Unborn — Risk and the reproductive citizen — The ̀public pregnancy’: women’s experiences — The foetal citizen — Eugenics and the relative value of the unborn — Concluding comments — Final Thoughts.

Subjects:

• Embryo, Mammalian.
• Beginning of Human Life.
• Bioethical Issues.
• Fetus.
• Pregnant Women.
• Human embryo — Social aspects.
• Fetus — Social aspects.
• Social medicine.

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