Citizen Fetus

This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine. It examines changing perceptions of the fetus over recent decades, comparing western ideas with those of non-western countries; examining maternal mental health during COVID-19 and charting the ascent of the 'fetus' to a cult phenomenon, which has currently reappeared in the courts. This work, given its multifaceted approach, will be of interest to a varied and wide range of people, from parents to doctors and nurses, to anthropologists and ethnologists, to scientists, to students of various disciplines, to psychologists and psychoanalysts, to lawyers dealing with the topic and to a general public simply interested in these fundamental themes.

Autorentext

Alessandra Piontelli is an fomrer Professor at the University of Milan, Italy, where she studies different aspects of motherhood, focusing in particular on modes of maternal-infant coping in extreme environmental and social conditions. Her medical work brings her into contact with many developing countries, and her stages are aimed at improving maternal and child physical and mental health, and at instructing local personnel in basic notions of Psychiatry, Neurology and Obstetrics. Her book Twins in the World was published with Palgrave in 2008.

Inhalt

PART I: The Ascent of the Fetus.- Chapter 1: the 1960s and the 1970s.- Chapter 2: The '80s.- Chapter 3: The '90s.- Chapter 4: The First Decade of the New Millennium.- Chapter 5: 2010-2019.- Chapter 6: Citizen Fetus.- PART II. Beyond Mythology.- Chapter 7: Studying Fetuses.- Chapter 8: Basic Fetal Movements. Some Known Functions.- Chapter 9: Preparing for Life After Birth.- PART III: Other Perspectives on Fetuses.- Chapter 10: Old Customs and New Cults.- Chapter 11: Fetuses from Other Worlds.- PART IV: Covid Pandemic. Fetuses Become Citizens?.- Chapter 12: Darkness Descends. Sars-CoV-19.- Chapter 13: Pregnancy and Fetuses fade into Obscurity.- Chapter 14: Pregnancies and Home After Birth.- Conclusion.