Histories of Fetal Knowledge Production in Sweden

Solveig Jülich is Professor of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy (University of Rochester Press, 2024).

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Historicizing Fetal Knowledge Production, Reproductive Politics, and Conflicted ValuesSolveig Jülich1 Caring for the Liminal Dead: Lutheran Emergency Baptism and Stillbirth, ca. 1530–1720Tove Paulsson Holmberg2 Between Blood Clots and Corpses: Valuations of Fetal Remains in Early Modern CourtsAnton Runesson3 Beyond the Human Fetus: Monstrous Births and Emerging Biopolitics around 1800Maja Bondestam4 Visualizing the Early Stages of Life: Embryology and Fetal Anatomy at the Karolinska Institute, 1820s–1920sEva Åhrén5 ‘Pelves of Various Nations’: Race and Sex in a Mid-nineteenth-Century Obstetric CollectionHelena Franzén6 Embryology and the Clinic: Early to Mid-twentieth-Century Stories of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Fetal CollectingSolveig Jülich7 Fetuses as Instruments of Health: Polio Vaccine and the Nation in the Postwar PeriodSolveig Jülich and Isa Dussauge8 The Moral Imperative of Fetal Research: Framing the Scientific Use of Aborted Fetuses in the 1960s and 1970sHelena Tinnerholm Ljungberg9 From the Laboratory to the Parliament: Valuing Abortion Pills in the 1960sMorag Ramsey10 Thalidomide in the Welfare State: Rehabilitation and Contested NormalityMaria Björkman11 Unruly Bodies, Unruly Statistics: Thalidomide and the Birth of Reproductive Epidemiology in the Early 1960sFrancis Lee12 Navigating between Risk Discourses: On the Early Adoption and Development of Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Lund, ca. 1960–1980Annika Berg13 Visual Wonders and Shocks: Images of Human Fetuses in Television Programs on Abortion and Fetal Research, 1969–1988Elisabet Björklund14 The Moral Landscape of Prenatal DiagnosisAnna TunlidEpilogue: Controversy and Fetal Research: The Swedish CaseSolveig JülichGlossarySelected BibliographyIndex