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Die Basler Historikerin Caroline Arni legt eine inspirierende und materialreiche Studie dazu vor, wie die Wissenschaften vom Menschen im 19. Jahrhundert das Ungeborene als Wissensgegenstand erschlossen. Sie arbeitet die Beiträge der Fötalphysiologie, Embryologie, Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychoanalyse heraus und rekonstruiert, welchen historischen Konjunkturen die Vorstellung eines mütterlichen Einflusses auf die Entwicklung des Ungeborenen unterlag. Überzeugend zeigt sie auf, wie das Konzept der biologischen Entwicklung unlösbare Fragen danach aufwarf, was ein menschliches Subjekt ausmacht. Die höchst lesenswerte wissenschaftshistorische Studie bietet auch für die geschlechtertheoretische Erforschung von Schwangerschaft und Geburt in der Gegenwart eine Vielzahl von Anregungen.
Objective. To examine the effects of clinical hypnosis versus NLP intervention on the success rate of ECV procedures in comparison to a control group.
Methods. A prospective off-centre randomised trial of a clinical hypnosis intervention against NLP of women with a singleton breech fetus at or after 370/7 (259 days) weeks of gestation and normal amniotic fluid index. All 80 participants heard a 20-minute recorded intervention via head phones. Main outcome assessed was success rate of ECV. The intervention groups were compared with a control group with standard medical care alone (n=122).
Results. A total of 42 women, who received a hypnosis intervention prior to ECV, had a 40.5% (n=17), successful ECV, whereas 38 women, who received NLP, had a 44.7% (n=17) successful ECV (P > 0.05). The control group had similar patient characteristics compared to the intervention groups (P > 0.05). In the control group (n = 122) 27.3% (n = 33) had a statistically significant lower successful ECV procedure than NLP (P = 0.05) and hypnosis and NLP (P = 0.03).
Conclusions. These findings suggest that prior clinical hypnosis and NLP have similar success rates of ECV procedures and are both superior to standard medical care alone.
Obstetrical care as a matter of time: ultrasound screening in anticipatory regimes of pregnancy
(2014)
This article explores the ways in which ultrasound screening influences the temporal dimensions of prevention in the obstetrical management of pregnancy. Drawing on praxeographic perspectives and empirically based on participant observation of ultrasound examinations in obstetricians’ offices, it asks how ultrasound scanning facilitates anticipatory modes of pregnancy management, and investigates the entanglement of different notions of time and temporality in the highly risk-oriented modes of prenatal care in Germany. Arguing that the paradoxical temporality of prevention – acting now in the name of the future – is intensified by ultrasound screening, I show how the attribution of risk regarding foetal growth in prenatal check-ups is based on the fragmentation of procreative time and ask how time standards come into play, how pregnancy is located in calendrical time, and how notions of foetal time and the everyday life times of pregnant women clash during negotiations between obstetricians and pregnant women about the determination of the due date. By analysing temporality as a practical accomplishment via technological devices such as ultrasound, the paper contributes to debates in feminist STS studies on the role of time in reproduction technologies and the management of pregnancy and birth in contemporary societies.