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Dead Mothers, Live Births: Postmortem Pregnancy and the Politics of Life and Death
Dead Mothers, Live Births: Postmortem Pregnancy and the Politics of Life and Death
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문
- Control Number
- 0015492871
- International Standard Book Number
- 9781085737128
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 610
- Main Entry-Personal Name
- Breitwieser, Lindsey N.
- Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint
- [Sl] : Indiana University, 2019
- Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019
- Physical Description
- 257 p
- General Note
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: B.
- General Note
- Advisor: Sanders, Stephanie A.
- Dissertation Note
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019.
- Restrictions on Access Note
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- Summary, Etc.
- 요약"Dead Mothers, Live Births: Postmortem Pregnancy and the Politics of Life and Death" uses the continued gestation of a fetus within a brain-dead woman to illustrate the use of scientific knowledge as a technique of social control. There have been attempts to catalogue and assess the character of these "postmortem pregnancies" in biomedicine, law, and social sciences, but these are limited in scope. Not only are crucial data points missing from the literature, but this "medical miracle" lacks significant theorization. In particular, current scholarship has not synthesized scientific, juridical, historical, and cultural knowledge to account for the phenomenon's relation to systems of power. In order to fill this gap, this dissertation orients conversations about postmortem pregnancy toward the "facts of life" physicians use to justify utilizing brain-dead women as incubators. It focuses on the socioscientific construction of the biological life/death binary, the seemingly universal and absolute dualism on which the postmortem pregnancy is founded. Through feminist science and technology studies, disability theory, history and philosophy of science, medical anthropology, and neuroscience, this dissertation shows how biological "liveliness" and "deadness" have developed conceptually in western medicine over time. It also establishes in what ways these demarcations (or a rejection of them) reconfigure personhood, autonomy, agency, and humanity across time and space. With an interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach, this dissertation demonstrates that postmortem pregnancy evinces the strategic deployment of medical definitions of biological life and death according to shifting sociopolitical movements, even as the phenomenon underscores the inability to clearly define life and death as mutually exclusive states.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Gender studies
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Philosophy of science
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Medical ethics
- Added Entry-Corporate Name
- Indiana University Gender Studies
- Host Item Entry
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 81-03B.
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- Dissertation Abstract International
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