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8943090

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-3-3
pubmed:abstractText
This essay examines three tendencies nurtured in the practices of reproductive technology - tendencies with profoundly disturbing implications for us as individuals and as social beings. They are: 1) the increasing subjectification of the fetus (that is, the increasing tendency to posit a fetal subject), 2) the increasing objectification of the gestating woman, leading to her representation as interchangeable object rather than unique subject, and 3) the increasing tendency to conceive of the fetus and the mother as social, medical, and legal antagonists. Considering the construction of fetus, mother, and the fetal/maternal relation in earlier (Western) historical periods, a contemporary work of literature, a government report, and the popular press, I argue that as the fetus is increasingly being understood as a subject, the mother is increasingly being reduced to an antagonist, an obstacle to fetal health, and an object. The essay concludes by offering some tentative conclusions about the general process of fetal subjectification in the United States and Europe.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0360-5310
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
515-35
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Fetal subjects and maternal objects: reproductive technology and the new fetal/maternal relation.
pubmed:affiliation
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article