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Contested boundaries of personhood
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Contested boundaries of personhood
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the moral status of the fetus and infant in late Tokugawa Japan
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Saeki
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EIko
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1979-
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EIko Saeki
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Eviatar Zerubavel
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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This dissertation examines the competing notions of personhood in the late Tokugawa era in Japan (from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries), by investigating conceptualizations of the beginning of life articulated and negotiated by different stakeholders in society. During this period, the concept of personhood was disputed, with increasing numbers of poor families performing abortions and infanticide, while moral entrepreneurs vehemently condemned such practices. Further, doctors in nascent obstetrics developed technologies to save the lives of the fetus and infants, contributing to the idea that the fetus and infant were persons worthy of protection. To decipher changing notions of the beginning of life, this work examines the manners in which the fetus and infants were included in the categories of patients in medical practices, victims in anti-abortion and infanticide discourses, and children in parents’ point of view. Drawing on textual analysis of materials including Confucian, obstetrical, and legal texts, as well as the analysis of archeological data, this study identifies and analyzes divergent perspectives on the genesis of life, and personal, political, and ethical motivations behind such claims.
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Sociology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 174 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Fetus--Moral and ethical aspects--Japan
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by Eiko Saeki
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31st, 2019.
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