Hanson explores the various ways that being pregnant has been developed and interpreted in Britain during the last 250 years. Drawing on quite a lot of assets, together with obstetric texts, being pregnant recommendation books, literary texts, renowned fiction and visible pictures, she analyzes altering attitudes to key matters equivalent to the relative rights of mom and foetus and the measure to which clinical intervention is appropriate in being pregnant. Hanson additionally considers the consequences of clinical and social adjustments at the subjective adventure of being pregnant.
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