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== Unborn Entities as Moral Work Objects ==
== Unborn Entities as Moral Work Objects ==

Revision as of 23:49, 24 April 2013

ISBN: 978-1-60785-xxx-x

edited by Deborah Lupton

Introduction: Conceptualising and Configuring the Unborn Human 

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Unborn human organisms – embryos and foetuses -- receive an unprecedented level of prominence in the contemporary era. There have long been debates about the moral status of the unborn and their claims to personhood and to be treated as full human subjects, particularly in relation to religious philosophy, bioethics and abortion politics. Over the past half-century, however, these debates have become more diversified, intense and complex in response to a number of social, technological and economic changes. More so than at any other time in human history, embryos and foetuses are represented in public forums as beautiful, precious, vulnerable creatures that require the utmost levels of protection. They are commonly represented as already fully human, indeed as already infants, and deserving of the rights and privileges accorded the infant.


Debates Over Unborn Personhood

P Kreeft
Human personhood begins at conception
R George and P Lee
Embryonic human persons. Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
J Barry
Medico-Christian Embryology, or the Unborn Child (From the Earliest Period of its Existence)

Mourning and Remembering the Lost Unborn

M Kelley and S Trinidad
Silent loss and the clinical encounter: parents’ and physicians’ experiences of stillbirth – a qualitative analysis
D Davidson
Reflections on doing research grounded in my experience of perinatal loss: from auto/biography to autoethnography
S Murphy and H Thomas
Stillbirth and loss: family practices and display
Memorial video for pregnancy loss

Struggles Over Dealing with the Unwanted Unborn

A Moscrop
‘Miscarriage or abortion?’ Understanding the medical language of pregnancy loss in Britain; a historical perspective
W Tong, W Low, Y Wong, S Choong and R Jegasothy
Exploring pregnancy termination experiences and needs among Malaysian women: a qualitative study
The World’s Abortion Laws 2013 website
N Zamberlin, M Romero and S Ramos
Latin American women’s experiences with medical abortion in settings where abortion is legally restricted
S Barot
Governmental coercion in reproductive decision making: see it both ways
S Childs and E Evans
The revived debate on abortion is not simply dog whistle politics, but a threat to women’s rights
A Peck
Personhood advocates continue war on women’s rights despite growing list of defeats
Personhood USA website
‘The Miracle of Life’ (excerpt from an anti-abortion film)
N Stotland
Abortion: social context, psychodynamic implications
D Murphy
My foetus (review of documentary of this name)

Assessing the Quality of the Unborn

S Wang
The past, present, and future of embryo selection in in vitro fertilization
A Theodosiou and M Johnson
The politics of human embryo research and the motivation to achieve PGD
Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales
S Aksoy
Antenatal screening and its possible meaning from the unborn baby's perspective
F Place
Amniocentesis and motherhood: how prenatal testing shapes our cultural understandings of pregnancy and disability
Parliamentary Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability

The Surplus Unborn Entity

J Conde
Embryo donation: the government adopts a cause
P Andrews, H Moore and A Smith
Human embryonic stem cells: prospects for human health – a 1 day international symposium held at the University of Sheffield
H Greely
Moving human embryonic stem cells from legislature to lab: remaining legal and ethical questions
R Blackford
Stem cell research on other worlds, or why embryos do not have a right to life
T Douglas and J Savulescu
Destroying unwanted embryos in research. Talking Point on morality and human embryo research
B Manninen
Revisiting the argument from fetal potential
B Manninen
Are human embryos Kantian persons? Kantian considerations in favor of embryonic stem cell research



Sagan, A. and Singer, P.
Embryos, stem cells and moral status: a response to George and Lee

Unborn Entities as Moral Work Objects

Ehrich, K., Williams, C. and Farsides, B.
The embryo as moral work object: PGD/IVF staff views and experiences
Ehrich, K., Williams, C. and Farsides, B.
Fresh or frozen? Classifying ‘spare’ embryos for donation to human embryonic stem cell research
Ehrich, K., Williams, C., Farsides, B., Sandall, J. and Scott, R.
Choosing embryos: ethical complexity and relational autonomy in staff accounts of PGD
Ehrich, K., Williams, C., Farsides, B. and Scott, R.
Embryo futures and stem cell research: the management of informed uncertainty
Haimes, E. and Taylor, K.
The contributions of empirical evidence to socio-ethical debates on fresh embryo donation for human embryonic stem cell research
Saletan, W.
The healer: how Shinya Yamanaka transformed the stem-cell war and made everyone a winner
Sills, E. and Murphy, S.
Determining the status of non-transferred embryos in Ireland: a conspectus of case law and implications for clinical IVF practice
Takahashi, S., Fujita, M., Fujimoto, A., Fujiwara, T., Yano, T., Tsutsumi, O., Taketani, Y. and Akabayashi, A.
The decision-making process for the fate of frozen embryos by Japanese infertile women: a qualitative study

Visualising the Unborn

Alexander Tsiaras's TED talk about his visualisations of the unborn

Barniville, H.
The morphology and histology of a human embryo of 8.5 mm
‘In the Womb’ (excerpt from a National Geographic documentary)
‘Lennart Nilsson Photography’ website
‘Making Visible Embryos’ website
Reissland, N., Francis, B., Mason, J. and Lincoln, K.
Do facial expressions develop before birth?
Tansey, E. and Christie, D. (eds)
Looking At the Unborn: Historical Aspects of Obstetric Ultrasound

‘The Miracle of Life Part 1’ (excerpt from Lennart Nilsson's documentary)

‘The Multi Dimensional Human Embryo’ website
‘The Sociology of the Unborn’ Pinterest board
‘The Ultrasound as Cultural Artefact’ Pinterest board
‘The Visible Embryo’ website
‘The Visual MD’ (Alexander Tsiaras’s company) website

Risk and Maternal Responsibility

Bayrampour, H., Heaman, M. Duncan, K. and Tough, S.
Advanced maternal age and risk perception: a qualitative study
Beveridge, E., Anath, H. and Scurlock, H.
What protection for the unborn child of a psychologically vulnerable adult?
Dayan, J., Creveuil, C., Dreyfus, M., Herlicoviez, M., Baleyte, J.-M. and O’Keane, V.
Developmental model of depression applied to prenatal depression: role of past and present life events, post emotional disorders and pregnancy stress
Helme, T.A.
An address on the unborn child: its care and rights
Lowe, P., Lee, E. and Yardley, L.
Under the influence? The construction of foetal alcohol syndrome in UK newspapers
Maas, A., Vreeswijk, C., de Cock, E., Rijk, C. and van Bakel, H.
'Expectant parents': study protocol of a longitudinal study concerning prenatal (risk) factors and postnatal infant development, parenting, and parent-infant relationships
McDonald, K., Amir, L. and Davey, M-A.
Maternal bodies and medicines: a commentary on risk and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women and health professionals
Machado, J., Filho, P., Petersen, G. and Chatkin, J.
Quantitative effects of tobacco smoking exposure on the maternal-fetal circulation
Monie, I.
Influence of the environment on the unborn
Ratnapalan, S., Bentur, Y. and Koren, G.
Doctor, will that x-ray harm my unborn child?
Rhetta, B.
A plea for the lives of the unborn
Saastad, E., Winje, B., Pedersen, B. Stray and Froen, J. Frederick
Fetal movement counting improved identification of fetal growth restriction and perinatal outcomes – a multi-centre, randomized, control trial
Spong, C.
Protection against prenatal alcohol-induced damage
Viaux-Savalen, S. et al.
Prenatal ultrasound screening: false positive soft markers may alter maternal representations and mother-infant interaction
Westfall, R. and Benoit, C.
Interpreting compliance and resistance to medical dominance in women’s accounts of their pregnancies
Yazdani, S., Yosofniyapasha, Y., Nasab, B. Hassan, Mojaveri, M. Hagshenas, and Bouzari, Z.
Effect of maternal body mass index on pregnancy outcome and newborn weight

Bringing the Maternal Body Back In

Bosanquet, A.
An image carnal and divine: angels playing with placentas
Riggs, D. and Due, C.
Gay men, race and surrogacy in India
Souza, J., Oliveira-Neto, A., Surita, F. Garanhani, Cecatti, J., Amaral, E. and e Silva, J. Pinto
The prolongation of somatic support in a pregnant woman with brain-death: a case report


 

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