The interrelation of scientific and aesthetic visual norms employed in anatomic sculptures
opens novel and effective persuasive registers in debates around bodily autonomy. Using …

This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have
profoundly determined fetal politics and the contemporary abortion debates. With its close …

Artificial wombs are already in development that have the potential to radically alter how we
perceive the developing fetus and the role of pregnancy in society. That this technology …

Culturally constructed relationships between art, science, and economics are reflected in
human anatomy displays and entwined with their rhetorical efficacy. This paper juxtaposes …

The scientific and political debate over whether a fetus can experience pain highlights a vital
and controversial boundary for governance—the boundary of human life. I use the 2012 and …

The role of fetal development in abortion work is unresolved, mirroring a broader cultural
ambivalence regarding the fetus. The collective, cultural notion of fetuses tends to lie on a …

It does not seem too much to claim that the biomedical, public fetusgiven flesh by the high
technology of visualization-is a sacred-secular incarnation, the material realization of the …

Given the recent election in the US, it is more important than ever to fight for and protect the
greater visibility of minority and nonconforming bodies in our public, pedagogical, and …

The social stigmatisation of abortion and of persons who have had abortions persists in
many countries. In the social sciences, research on this subject is relatively new. In addition …

The aborted fetal body is an absent presence in prochoice public discourses in the United
States; bereft of symbols of fetal significance, the prochoice movement is open to charges of …