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Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of perinatal mortality referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth.

Weirs book gives a new feminist approach to pregnancy in advanced modernity focusing on the governance of population. She traces the introduction of the perinatal threshold into child welfare and tort law through expert testimony on foetal risk, sketching the clash at law between the birth and perinatal thresholds of the living subject. Her book makes original empirical and theoretical contributions to the history of the present (Foucauldian research), feminism, and social studies of risk, and she conceptualizes a new historical focus for the history of the present: the threshold of the living subject.

Calling attention to the significance of population politics, especially the reduction of infant mortality, for the unsettling of the birth threshold, this book argues that risk techniques are heterogeneous, contested with expertise, and plural in their political effects. Interview research with midwives shows their critical relation to using risk assessment in clinical practice. An original and accessible study, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers across many disciplines.

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Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
Historically, western cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the end of childbirth. However, in the contemporary medicine, law and politics of the global north, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject occurred in the 1950s with the novel concept of perinatal mortality referring to death of either the fetus or the newborn just prior to, during and after birth.
Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics calls attention to the significance of population politics, especially the reduction of infant mortality, for the unsettling of birth as the entry to human status. Weir traces the introduction of a new perinatal threshold into child welfare and tort law through expert testimony on fetal risk, sketching the clash at law between the birth and perinatal thresholds of the living subject.
This novel book makes original empirical and theoretical contributions to the history of the present (Foucauldian research), feminism, and social studies of risk. Weir conceptualizes a new focus for the history of the present: the threshold of the living subject the historically and culturally variable processes through which the boundary of human status is established at the points of entry and exit into collective existence. She argues that the risk techniques are heterogeneous, subjects of contention, and plural in their political effects rather than singular, neoliberal, and uniformly supported by expertise.
This book is a well researched and accessible study of biopolitics which is of interest to students and researchers in anthropology, health studies, history, legal studies, science studies, sociology, and womens studies.
Lorna Weir is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the York Centre for Health Studies at York University, Ontario, Canada, and is a member of Health Care, Technology and Place, Canadian Institutes for Health Research (University of Toronto).
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Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
On the threshold of the living subject
Lorna Weir
Pregnancy, Risk and
Biopolitics
On the threshold of the living subject

Lorna Weir

First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park Abingdon Oxon - photo 2
First published 2006
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2006 Lorna Weir
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Weir, Lorna, 1952
Pregnancy, risk, and biopolitics : on the threshold of the living subject / Lorna
Weir.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN10: 0-415392578 (paper back) ISBN10: 0-415392586 (hard back)
1. Prenatal careSocial aspects. 2. Fetus. 3. FetalLegal status, laws, etc.
4. Biopolitics. I. Title.
RG526.W45 2006
362.198'2dc22
2006004013
ISBN10: 0-415392586 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415392578 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415392587 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415392570 (pbk)
eISBN: 978-1-13416-355-7
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Appendix to Chapter 3: The Ontario Antenatal Record 19922002
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Acknowledgements
A number of friends and colleagues provided steadfast encouragement while I was at work on this book. Carolyn Strange lent a willing ear on many occasions, patiently instructing me in the importance of reconciling scholarship and publicity, titles and electronic database searches. Bruce Curtis radiated calm confidence at crucial junctures. I am hoping to repay Eric Mykhalovskiy for his long patience and comments on the manuscript over the course of our current joint research on global public health surveillance. Pat Elliot read and commented on the first chapter, assuring me it made sense. Fiona Miller and Tom Loebel generously read part of the manuscript. Gottfried Paasche improved translations, and Barbara Godard supplied emergency advice in literary theory.
Paul Dattas critical comments tried to save me from empiricism. The manuscript benefited from his critique, and I continue to contemplate the status of theory in theoretico-empirical work. The preliminary theoretical observations on sovereignty found here are indebted to recent writing with my colleague Brian Singer. Barbara Duden gave the penultimate draft a welcoming reception. Her remarks on the manuscript strengthened the final version, making the process of revising more intellectually interesting.
Many thanks to the feminist legal scholars Shelley Gavigan, Joan Gilmour, Mary Lou McPhedran, Pam Shime and particularly Karen Schucher for their help at various points, though they remain entirely blameless for the resulting treatment of law. The reference librarians at the York University Law Library were extremely helpful with requests for locating sources.
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