Full Description
In this timely and richly illustrated book, a group of multidisciplinary scholars explores the uses and handlings of fetuses, still-born, reproductive organs, and pregnant bodies for knowledge production, including the development of vaccines and pharmaceuticals, in Sweden over five hundred years. By examining the conflicted values and balancing acts of a variety of actors, such as medical experts, legal officials, policymakers, media professionals, disability organizations, and women's movements, it demonstrates how the uses of aborted fetuses for research generated public controversy and became regulated by ethics and law in Sweden.
Contributors are: Eva Åhrén, Annika Berg, Elisabet Björklund, Maria Björkman, Maja Bondestam, Isa Dussauge, Helena Franzén, Solveig Jülich, Francis Lee, Tove Paulsson Holmberg, Morag Ramsey, Anton Runesson, Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg, and Anna Tunlid.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values
Solveig Jülich
1 Caring for the Liminal Dead: Lutheran Emergency Baptism and Stillbirth, ca. 1530-1720
Tove Paulsson Holmberg
2 Between Blood Clots and Corpses: Valuations of Fetal Remains in Early Modern Courts
Anton Runesson
3 Beyond the Human Fetus: Monstrous Births and Emerging Biopolitics around 1800
Maja Bondestam
4 Visualizing the Early Stages of Life: Embryology and Fetal Anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, 1820s-1920s
Eva Åhrén
5 'Pelves of Various Nations': Race and Sex in a Mid-nineteenth-Century Obstetric Collection
Helena Franzén
6 Embryology and the Clinic: Early to Mid-twentieth-Century Stories of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Fetal Collecting
Solveig Jülich
7 Fetuses as Instruments of Health: Polio Vaccine and the Nation in the Postwar Period
Solveig Jülich and Isa Dussauge
8 The Moral Imperative of Fetal Research: Framing the Scientific Use of Aborted Fetuses in the 1960s and 1970s
Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg
9 From the Laboratory to the Parliament: Valuing Abortion Pills in the 1960s
Morag Ramsey
10 Thalidomide in the Welfare State: Rehabilitation and Contested Normality
Maria Björkman
11 Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960s
Francis Lee
12 Navigating between Risk Discourses: On the Early Adoption and Development of Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Lund, ca. 1960-1980
Annika Berg
13 Visual Wonders and Shocks: Images of Human Fetuses in Television Programs on Abortion and Fetal Research, 1969-1988
Elisabet Björklund
14 The Moral Landscape of Prenatal Diagnosis
Anna Tunlid
Epilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research: The Swedish Case
Solveig Jülich
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
