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At the Margins of Humanity: Fetal Positions in Science and Medicine

Monica J. Casper

University of California, San Francisco

This article offers a comparative analysis of experimental fetal surgery and fetal tissue research. The author argues that fetuses are positioned differently across each set of practices, with significant implications for actors in these domains. By empirically charting the ways in which humanity is or is not attributed to fetal work objects, the author's argument challenges contemporary debates in science studies that tend to conceptualize human and nonhuman in dualistic terms. This analysis instead shows the heterogeneous attribution of these categories, as well as the spaces, margins, and positions, which constitute them as distinct.

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 19, No. 3, 307-323 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/016224399401900303
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