In her view, anatomists, theologians, and philosophers shared a common view of the "hidden fruit" as sheltered by coverings. The book begins with Barbara Duden's careful elaboration of the polymorphic shape of the unborn from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Consequently, the objectives of the book are to retrieve the lost perceptions of being laden, to record the construction of modern knowledge, and to relativize the present perception of the embryo as a being of one's own from the very moment of conception (p. The editors seek to historicize the present abstract concept of "2 in 1" in the same way that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century concepts are historical. They point out that the historical experience of "being laden" as a genuine physical evidence has been displaced today by scientific information about the biological development of the embryo. The History of the Unborn starts with a provocative thesis: the editors want not only to shed new light on former perceptions and imaginations, but also to contribute to the present debate about pregnancy. Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, no.
Geschichte des Ungeborenen: Zur Erfahrungs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Schwangerschaft, 17.-20. Barbara Duden, Jürgen Schlumbohm, and Patrice Veit, eds. Published in: Heredity Explored: Between Publ\ic Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930, edited by Staffan M�ller-Wille and Christina Brandt, published by The MIT Press
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