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L’utérus artificiel ou l’effacement du corps maternel : de l’obstétrique à la machinique
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Martin, Sylvie |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Faced with the present development of artificial womb technology, this master thesis aims to comprehend its sociohistorical origins and logic. Making use of a « cartography of the present » method of analysis, we start off by establishing the empirical constitution of ectogenesis, such as it is expressed in laboratory research and actual expert discourses on the subject. This preliminary analysis enables us to draw the problematic question of the erasure of the maternal body from the scene of reproduction, which we frame in a sociohistorical and anthropological perspective. Our principal hypothesis states that the artificial womb represents a radical outcome of current social representations and practices. Therefore, we try to trace the path of this radicalization by scrutinizing assisted procreation, from the medieval midwives’ practice to modern obstetrics and contemporary techno-maternity. Thus the genealogy of the increasing medicalization, pathologization, and technicization of the maternal body serves to identify the social construction of a mechanical maternity. In other words, we argue that our present mode of procreation continually erases the body and thus sets the scene for the implantation of the artificial womb. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.acsalf.ca/wp-content/uploads/Memoire_Martin_Sylvie_2010.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/4701/Martin_Sylvie_2010_m%EF%BF%BDmoire.pdf;jsessionid=5487BD5FFC7B49513B33261F7C8A0C13?sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
