(Re)Producing Cyborgs
Biomedicalizing Abortion through the Congressional Debate over Fetal Pain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashlyn Jaeger (University of California, Davis, CA, USA), Ashlyn M Jaeger (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-96 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243918783523 |
| OpenAlex | W2809554445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
The scientific and political debate over whether a fetus can experience pain highlights a vital and controversial boundary for governance-the boundary of human life. I use the 2012 and 2013 US federal debates over twenty-week abortion bans (also known as fetal pain laws) to investigate how personhood is constructed in a society transformed by biomedical science and technology in the United States. Although those who support and oppose the bill take different stances on abortion regulation, each relies on biomedical knowledge and risk assessment to substantiate claims. Through content analysis of congressional documents, I find that members of Congress strategically draw on biomedical discourse to manage the boundaries of bodies and construct a universal "at-risk" political subject in need of governmental protection. These findings bring scholarly debates about personhood into the era of biomedicalization by emphasizing the latent process of creating a hybridized subjectivity that I call cybernetic personhood
Abortion · Bioethics · Boundary-work · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Management · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Pregnancy · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Designs on Nature
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Baby's First Picture
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
The Politics of Life Itself
Biomedicalization
Visualising abortion
Using Gender to Undo Gender
Foetal personhood and representations of the absent child in pregnancy loss memorialization
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Situated Knowledges
Cyborg Babies
Re-visioning Ultrasound through Women's Accounts of Pre-abortion Care in England
The Cyborg Embryo
With This You Can Meet Your Baby
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |