Imagining the Fetus

Author : Jane Marie Law,Vanessa R Sasson

Paperback

Published : Thursday 9 April 2009

ISBN : 9780195380057

Price : €33.33

Description

This volume presents essays that explore the depiction of the fetus in the worlds major religious traditions, finding some striking commonalities as well as intriguing differences. Among the themes that emerge is the tendency to conceive of the fetus as somehow independent of the mothers body - as in the case of the Buddha, who is described as inhabiting a palace while gestating in the womb. On the other hand, the fetus can also symbolically represent profound human needs and emotions, such as the universal experience of vulnerability. The authors note how the advent of the fetal sonogram has transformed how people everywhere imagine the unborn today, giving rise to a narrow range of decidedly literal questions about personhood, gender, and disability.

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