Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject

Contributor(s): Weir, Lorna (Author)

ISBN: 9780415392587

Publisher: Routledge

Hardcover

$249.99

Pub Date: August 3, 2006

Dewey: 362.1982

LCCN: 2006004013

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.76" H x 9.36" L x 6.46" W ( 1.16 lbs) 248 pages

BISAC Categories:

Medical | Health Care Delivery | Health and Fitness | Pregnancy and Childbirth

Series: Transformations

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Calling attention to the significance of population politics for the unsettling of the birth threshold, Weir argues that risk techniques are heterogeneous, contested with expertise, and plural in their political effects.

Review Quotes:

"Lorna Weir's Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of pregnancy discourse."

-- Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2009

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