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Traversing birth: continuity and contingency in research on development in nineteenth-century life and human sciences

Caroline Arni

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 37 (1):50-67 (2015)

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Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality.Mark Schweda & Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty - 2023 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45 (1):1-10.details Bringing together scholars from philosophy, bioethics, law, sociology, and anthropology, this topical collection explores how innovations in the field of biomedicine and the life sciences are challenging and transforming traditional understandings of human temporality and of the temporal duration, extension and structure of human life. The contributions aim to expand the theoretical debate by highlighting the significance of time and human temporality in different discourses and practical contexts, and developing concrete, empirically informed, and culturally sensitive perspectives. The collection is structured (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Knowledge of childhood: materiality, text, and the history of science – an interdisciplinary round table discussion.Felix Rietmann, Mareike Schildmann, Caroline Arni, Daniel Thomas Cook, Davide Giuriato, Novina Göhlsdorf & Wangui Muigai - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Science 50 (1):111-141.details This round table discussion takes the diversity of discourse and practice shaping modern knowledge about childhood as an opportunity to engage with recent historiographical approaches in the history of science. It draws attention to symmetries and references among scientific, material, literary and artistic cultures and their respective forms of knowledge. The five participating scholars come from various fields in the humanities and social sciences and allude to historiographical and methodological questions through a range of examples. Topics include the emergence of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States.Miriam Rich - 2023 - Isis 114 (3):513-536.details This essay analyzes the medical study of “monstrous birth” as a site of race-making in the nineteenth-century United States. It argues that the medical theorization of monstrosity was structured by multiple logics of race, which both shaped and emerged from medical authorities’ efforts to classify and interpret anomalous newborn bodies. Materialized at the intersection of these logics, the biological monster theorized a racial order that was hierarchical, temporalized, and vulnerable to the dangers of women’s reproduction. In this context, monstrosity became (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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