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▼a Breitwieser, Lindsey N. |
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▼a Dead Mothers, Live Births: Postmortem Pregnancy and the Politics of Life and Death. |
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▼a [S.l.]:
▼b Indiana University.,
▼c 2019. |
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▼a Ann Arbor:
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2019. |
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▼a 257 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: B. |
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▼a Advisor: Sanders, Stephanie A. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2019. |
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▼a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
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▼a "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. |
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▼a School code: 0093. |
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▼a Gender studies. |
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▼a Philosophy of science. |
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▼a Medical ethics. |
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▼a Indiana University.
▼b Gender Studies. |
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▼t Dissertations Abstracts International
▼g 81-03B. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2019 |
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▼a English |
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▼z 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다. |
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