Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-10-02 Epub Date: 2024-11-11 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2410249

Veronika Siegl

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Abstract

Starting from the unsettling ambiguity of the aborted but not-quite-dead fetus, I scrutinize how clinical staff interpret, decide on, and grapple with fetal life signs following disability-selective pregnancy terminations in Austria. Understanding their practices as attempts to provide certainty in a context of ontological and moral uncertainty, I conceptualize them as acts of care that contribute to an intricate "ontological careography" and facilitate classifying the not-quite-dead as an already-dead fetus. I show that the interpretation of life signs is not a simple matter of biological "facts" - what is ultimately at stake is the active making of life and death.

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Not-Quite-Dead: Ontological Careographies and the Ambiguous Fetal Body in the Context of Disability-Selective Pregnancy Termination in Austria.

从流产但未完全死亡的胎儿这种令人不安的模糊性出发，我仔细研究了在奥地利选择性残疾终止妊娠后，临床工作人员是如何解释、决定和处理胎儿生命迹象的。我将他们的做法理解为在本体论和道德观不确定的背景下提供确定性的尝试，并将其概念化为有助于复杂的 "本体论护理图谱 "的护理行为，有助于将尚未死亡的胎儿归类为已经死亡的胎儿。我表明，对生命迹象的解释并不是一个简单的生物 "事实 "问题--最终的关键在于对生死的积极创造。

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