Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-53673-9
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 831 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jülich, Solveig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).