Of Human Born

Of Human Born: A History of Fetal Life

A new history of the concept of fetal life in the human sciences

At a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue-from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and assessments of fetal risk- Of Human Born presents the largely unknown history of how the human sciences came to imagine the unborn in terms of “life before birth.”