Geschichte Des Ungeborenen by Barbara Duden

Patrice Veit finds pleas for assistance in Protestant hymnals to support the expectant mother. Of special interest are two articles about the spiritualization of giving birth in the late seventeenth century. Nadia Maria Filippini traces the conceptual replacement of the female experience of pregnancy by scientific anatomy, and the consequences of the change for the rise of cesarean birth in eighteenth-century Italy.

The following nine articles outline how church, medicine, and state shifted their focus from the expectant mother toward the fetus. Thus pregnancy was a state of uncertainty and hope. She describes the woman's perception of the 'fruit' as a state of female physical evidence, and at the same time as not yet part of the factual world. In her view, anatomists, theologians, and philosophers shared a common view of the 'hidden fruit' as sheltered by coverings. The book begins with Barbara Duden's careful elaboration of the polymorphic shape of the unborn from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Consequently, the objectives of the book are to retrieve the lost perceptions of being laden, to record the construction of modern knowledge, and to relativize the present perception of the embryo as a being of one's own from the very moment of conception (p. The editors seek to historicize the present abstract concept of '2 in 1' in the same way that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century concepts are historical. They point out that the historical experience of 'being laden' as a genuine physical evidence has been displaced today by scientific information about the biological development of the embryo.

The History of the Unborn starts with a provocative thesis: the editors want not only to shed new light on former perceptions and imaginations, but also to contribute to the present debate about pregnancy. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, no. Geschichte des Ungeborenen: Zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Schwangerschaft, 17.-20. Barbara Duden, Jürgen Schlumbohm, and Patrice Veit, eds. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īulletin of the History of Medicine 78.1 (2004) 238-240

Geschichte Des Ungeborenen by Barbara Duden