The social worlds of the unborn / Deborah Lupton.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

vii, 153 pages ; 23 cm.

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.