A Head Start in Life?: Prenatal Parenting and the Discourse of Fetal Stimulation

Authors

  • Lachlan Story York University.

Keywords:

Parenting, Women's Health, Prenatal health, Fetal stiumlation, Maternal-fetal relationship

Abstract

This paper explores the recent growth of pre-natal advice literature and commercial products that focus on the "problem" of fetal over and under-stimulation. I argue that in drawing upon recent medical research on the fetus, new areas of fetal life emerge, opportunities are defined, and the maternal-fetal relationship is re-articulated.

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Published

2003-04-01

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2003): Health Panic and Women's Health

Section

Original Research

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