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Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden
Medicine, Politics, and Public Controversy, 1530â2020
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 107
- Clio Medica, Volume: 107
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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 womenâs 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 à hrén, 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.
Contributors are: Eva à hrén, 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.
Solveig Jülich is Professor of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy (University of Rochester Press, 2024).
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values
âSolveig Jülich
1 Caring for the Liminal Dead: Lutheran Emergency Baptism and Stillbirth, ca. 1530â1720
âTove Paulsson Holmberg
2 Between Blood Clots and Corpses: Valuations of Fetal Remains in Early Modern Courts
âAnton Runesson
3 Beyond the Human Fetus: Monstrous Births and Emerging Biopolitics around 1800
âMaja Bondestam
4 Visualizing the Early Stages of Life: Embryology and Fetal Anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, 1820sâ1920s
âEva à hrén
5 âPelves of Various Nationsâ: Race and Sex in a Mid-nineteenth-Century Obstetric Collection
âHelena Franzén
6 Embryology and the Clinic: Early to Mid-twentieth-Century Stories of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Fetal Collecting
âSolveig Jülich
7 Fetuses as Instruments of Health: Polio Vaccine and the Nation in the Postwar Period
âSolveig Jülich and Isa Dussauge
8 The Moral Imperative of Fetal Research: Framing the Scientific Use of Aborted Fetuses in the 1960s and 1970s
âHelena Tinnerholm Ljungberg
9 From the Laboratory to the Parliament: Valuing Abortion Pills in the 1960s
âMorag Ramsey
10 Thalidomide in the Welfare State: Rehabilitation and Contested Normality
âMaria Björkman
11 Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960s
âFrancis Lee
12 Navigating between Risk Discourses: On the Early Adoption and Development of Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Lund, ca. 1960â1980
âAnnika Berg
13 Visual Wonders and Shocks: Images of Human Fetuses in Television Programs on Abortion and Fetal Research, 1969â1988
âElisabet Björklund
14 The Moral Landscape of Prenatal Diagnosis
âAnna Tunlid
Epilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research: The Swedish Case
âSolveig Jülich
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted Values
âSolveig Jülich
1 Caring for the Liminal Dead: Lutheran Emergency Baptism and Stillbirth, ca. 1530â1720
âTove Paulsson Holmberg
2 Between Blood Clots and Corpses: Valuations of Fetal Remains in Early Modern Courts
âAnton Runesson
3 Beyond the Human Fetus: Monstrous Births and Emerging Biopolitics around 1800
âMaja Bondestam
4 Visualizing the Early Stages of Life: Embryology and Fetal Anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, 1820sâ1920s
âEva à hrén
5 âPelves of Various Nationsâ: Race and Sex in a Mid-nineteenth-Century Obstetric Collection
âHelena Franzén
6 Embryology and the Clinic: Early to Mid-twentieth-Century Stories of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Fetal Collecting
âSolveig Jülich
7 Fetuses as Instruments of Health: Polio Vaccine and the Nation in the Postwar Period
âSolveig Jülich and Isa Dussauge
8 The Moral Imperative of Fetal Research: Framing the Scientific Use of Aborted Fetuses in the 1960s and 1970s
âHelena Tinnerholm Ljungberg
9 From the Laboratory to the Parliament: Valuing Abortion Pills in the 1960s
âMorag Ramsey
10 Thalidomide in the Welfare State: Rehabilitation and Contested Normality
âMaria Björkman
11 Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960s
âFrancis Lee
12 Navigating between Risk Discourses: On the Early Adoption and Development of Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Lund, ca. 1960â1980
âAnnika Berg
13 Visual Wonders and Shocks: Images of Human Fetuses in Television Programs on Abortion and Fetal Research, 1969â1988
âElisabet Björklund
14 The Moral Landscape of Prenatal Diagnosis
âAnna Tunlid
Epilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research: The Swedish Case
âSolveig Jülich
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
This book will be of interest to scholars of social and cultural history, history of medicine, history of science, history of technology, gender history, sociology and anthropology of reproduction, medical humanities, and bioethics.