The Anthropology of the Fetus : : Biology, Culture, and Society / / ed. by Sallie Han, Amy B. Scott, Tracy K. Betsinger.

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropolog...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword. How/Shall We Consider the Fetus?
  • Introduction. Conceiving the Anthropology of the Fetus
  • PART I: The Fetus in Biosocial Perspective
  • Chapter 1. The Borderless Fetus: Temporal Complexity of the Lived Fetal Experience
  • Chapter 2. The Biology of the Fetal Period: Interpreting Life from Fetal Skeletal Remains
  • Chapter 3. Pregnant with Ideas: Concepts of the Fetus in the Twenty-First-Century United States
  • PART II: Finding Fetuses in the Past: Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
  • Chapter 4. The Bioarchaeology of Fetuses
  • Chapter 5. Fetal Paleopathology: An Impossible Discipline?
  • Chapter 6. The Neolithic Infant Cemetery at Gebel Ramlah in Egypt’s Western Desert
  • Chapter 7. Excavating Identity: Burial Context and Fetal Identity in Postmedieval Poland
  • PART III: The Once and Future Fetus: Sociocultural Anthropology
  • Chapter 8. Waiting: The Redemption of Frozen Embryos through Embryo Adoption and Stem Cell Research in the United States
  • Chapter 9. Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco
  • Chapter 10. Beyond Life Itself: The Embedded Fetuses of Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism
  • Chapter 11. The “Sound” of Life: Or, How Should We Hear a Fetal “Voice”?
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Index