The Unborn Human

ISBN: 978-1-60785-xxx-x

edited by Deborah Lupton

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Medical Science: Historical

Barniville, H. (1914) The morphology and histology of a human embryo of 8.5 mm. Journal of Anatomy, 49(Pt 1), 1—71. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1288991/

Barry, J. (1846) Medico-Christian Embryology, or the Unborn Child (From the Earliest Period of its Existence). Louisville: printed for the author. http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/objectView.action?pid=nlm:nlmuid-101161766-bk

Helme, T.A. (1907) An address on the unborn child: its care and rights. British Medical Journal, 2(2434), 421—5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2358178/

Monie, I. (1963) Influence of the environment on the unborn. Western Journal of Medicine, 99(5), 323—27. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1515272/

Rhetta, B. (1915) A plea for the lives of the unborn. Journal of the National Medical Association, 7(3), 200—5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622137/

Tansey, E. and Christie, D. (eds) (2000) Looking At the Unborn: Historical Aspects of Obstetric Ultrasound. Wellcome Witness to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol. 5. London: Wellcome Trust. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/2075/ 


Medical Science: Contemporary

Anthes, E. (2010) The bad daddy factor. Blog post on Pacific Standard. http://www.psmag.com/health/the-bad-daddy-factor-25764/

Beveridge, E., Anath, H. and Scurlock, H. (2003) What protection for the unborn child of a psychologically vulnerable adult? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 96(2), 92—3. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539404/

  • Dayan, J., Creveuil, C., Dreyfus, M., Herlicoviez, M., Baleyte, J.-M. and O’Keane, V. (2010) Developmental model of depression applied to prenatal depression: role of past and present life events, post emotional disorders and pregnancy stress. PLoS ONE, 5(9), e12942. Article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Hunt, J., Daudi, K. Langat, McIntire, R. and Morales, P. (2006) The role of HLA-G in human pregnancy. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 4(Suppl 1): S10. Full article available under Creative Commons licence.
  • McDonald, K., Amir, L. and Davey, M-A. (2011) Maternal bodies and medicines: a commentary on risk and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women and health professionals. BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 5). Article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Muchado, J., Filho, P., Peterson, G. and Chatkin, J. (2011) Quantitative effects of tobacco smoking exposure on the maternal-fetal circulation. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11(24). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.

Ratnapalan, S., Bentur, Y. and Koren, G. (2008) Doctor, will that x-ray harm my unborn child? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 179(12), 1293—6. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585137/

  • Reissland, N., Francis, B., Mason, J. and Lincoln, K. (2011) Do facial expressions develop before birth? PLoS One, 6(8). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Saastad, E., Winje, B., Pedersen, B. Stray and Froen, J. Frederick (2011) Fetal movement counting improved identification of fetal growth restriction and perinatal outcomes – a multi-centre, randomized, control trial. PLoS One, 6(12). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Souza, J., Oliveira-Neto, A., Surita, F. Garanhani, Cecatti, J., Amaral, E. and e Silva, J. Pinto (2006) The prolongation of somatic support in a pregnant woman with brain-death: a case report. Reproductive Health, 3(3). Article available under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
  • Spong, C. (2006) Protection against prenatal alcohol-induced damage. PLoS Medicine, 3(4). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.

Stotland, N. (1998) Abortion: social context, psychodynamic implications. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 155(7), 964—7. Available online through Psychiatry Online at http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=172914

  • Viaux-Savalen, S. et al. (2012) Prenatal ultrasound screening: false positive soft markers may alter maternal representations and mother-infant interaction. PLoS One, 7(1). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.

Wang, S. (2011) The past, present, and future of embryo selection in In Vitro fertilization. Yale Journal of Biological Medicine, 84(4), 487—90. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3238312/

  • Yazdani, S., Yosofniyapasha, Y., Nasab, B. Hassan, Mojaveri, M. Hagshenas, and Bouzari, Z. (2012) Effect of maternal body mass index on pregnancy outcome and newborn weight. BMC Research Notes, 5(34). Article available under the Creative Commons licence.


Sociocultural Perspectives

Conley, O. (2012) Life magazine’s ‘drama of life before birth’. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Available at http://stsrepository.mbl.edu/bitstream/handle/10776/2024/embryo127869.xhtml?sequence=1

  • Lupton, D. (2012) Configuring Maternal, Preborn and Infant Embodiment. Sydney Health & Society Working Paper No. 2. Sydney: Sydney Health & Society Group. Available with permission of the author at http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8363

Murphy, D. (2004) My foetus (review of documentary of this name). British Medical Journal, 328(7446). Available online from PMC at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC404517/

Palmer, J. (2010) Briefing paper No. 4: 3D foetal ultrasound: social and clinical meanings. Available from warwick.ac.uk (Google Scholar).

Wilson, J. (2007) Mourning the Unborn Dead: American Uses of Japanese Buddhist post-abortion rituals (electronic thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Available from Carolina Digital Repository at https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record;jsessionid=18016FE18AE60C611177AD635200476B?id=uuid%3A4d6928c5-5299-4005-8794-e80dd98cae0c 


Ethical, Political and Philosophical Perspectives

  • Aksoy, S. (2001) Antenatal screening and its possible meaning from unborn baby’s perspective. BMC Medical Ethics, 2(3). Full article able to be published under Creative Commons license.

Blackford, R. (2006) Stem cell research on other worlds, or why embryos do not have a right to life. Journal of Medical Ethics, 32(3), 177—80. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564478/

Douglas, T. and Savulescu, J. (2009) Destroying unwanted embryos in research. Talking Point on morality and human embryo research. EBMO Reports, 10(4), 307—12. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672894/

Ehrich, K., Williams, C., Farsides, B., Sandall, J. and Scott, R. (2007) Choosing embryos: ethical complexity and relational autonomy in staff accounts of PGD. Sociology of Health & Illness, 29(7), 1091—106. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440558/

Ehrich, K., Williams, C. an d Farsides, B. (2008) The embryo as moral work object: PGD/IVF staff views and experiences. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(5), 772—87. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2592482/

George, R. and Lee, P. (2009) Embryonic human persons. Talking Point on morality and human embryo research. EMBO Reports, 10(4), 301—6. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672893/

  • Greeley, H. (2006) Moving human embryonic stem cells from legislature to lab: remaining legal and ethical questions. PLoS Medicine, 3(5), e143. Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.

Haimes, E. and Taylor, K. (2011) The contributions of empirical evidence to socio-ethical debates on fresh embryo donation for human embryonic stem cell research. Bioethics, 25(6), 334—41. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130929/

  • Manninen, B. Alvarez (2007) Revising the argument from fetal potential. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 2(7). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Manninen, B. Alvarez (2008) Are human embryos Kantian persons? Kantian considerations in favor of embryonic stem cell research. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 3(4). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Moller, M. (2008) Human embryonic stem cell research, justice, and the problem of unequal biological access. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 3(22). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.
  • Shalev, C. and Werner-Felmeyer, C. (2012) Patterns of globalized reproduction: egg cells regulation in Israel and Austria. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 1(15). Full article available under Creative Commons licence.

Theodosiou, A. and Johnson, M. (2011) The politics of human embryo research and the motivation to achieve PGD. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 22(5), 457—71. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101706/

Legal Perspectives

Australian Surrogacy and Adoption Blog (2012) In world first case, Qld judge decides when conception occurs. Available at http://surrogacyandadoption.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/in-world-first-case-qld-judge-decides.html

Conde, J. (2006) Embryo donation: the government adopts a cause. William & Mary Journal of Woman and the Law, 13(1), 273—303. Available online through the William and Mary Law School Scholarship Repository at http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol13/iss1/7

Fleming, M. (2008) Feticide laws: contemporary legal applications and constitutional inquiries. Pace Law Review, 29(1). Available online through Digital Commons@Pace at http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol29/iss1/3

Havard, J. (1964) Legal protection of life of the unborn and newly born. British Medical Journal, 1(5381), 499—500. Available online through PMC open access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1813602/

  • Sills, E. and Murphy, S. (2009) Determining the status of non-transferred embryos in Ireland: a conspectus of case law and implications for clinical IVF practice. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 4(8). Full article available under the Creative Commons licence.

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