Preterm babies, fetal patients, and childbearing choices / / John D. Lantos and Diane S. Lauderdale

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461437703321
• Autore: Lantos John D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-262-33080-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Collana: Basic Bioethics
• Disciplina: 618.3/97
• Soggetti: Premature infants - United States; Premature labor - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Two Narratives about Pregnancy in the Twentieth Century; 2 Individual Decisions: A 34-Year-Old Pregnant Woman at 36 Weeks; 3 Stillbirth; 4 Late Preterm Birth; 5 Are There Too Many C-sections?; 6 Feminist Critiques of Obstetrics; 7 The Debate about Home Birth; 8 Are C-sections Good for Women (and Babies, Too)?; 9 The Fetus Becomes a Patient; 10 The Pill (and Delayed Childbearing); 11 The Changing Demography of Childbearing; 12 Maternal Age, Multiple Pregnancies, and Preterm Birth; 13 Maternal Age and Infertility; 14 Changing Demography and Preterm Birth Rates 15 Your Fetus Becomes a Baby; 16 A Defense of Modern Obstetrics; 17 Neonatal Intensive Care and Infant Mortality; 18 The Evolution of Prenatal Care; 19 International Comparisons; 20 The Paradox of Modern Prenatal Care; 21 Conclusions; Notes; Index; Basic Bioethics Series List
• Sommario/riassunto: The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United States remains high--even though more women have access to prenatal care now than three decades ago. They also analyze a puzzling paradox: why, even as ; the rate of preterm birth rose through the 1990's and early 2000's, the rate of infant mortality steadily decreased. Lantos and Lauderdale explore both the medical practices that might give rise to these trends as well as some of the demographic changes that have occurred over these years. American women now delay childbearing, for example, and have fewer babies. Doctors are better able to monitor fetal health and well-being. Prenatal care has changed, no longer focusing solely on the health of the pregnant woman. Today, the fetus has become a patient, and many preterm births are medically induced because of concern for the well-being of the fetus. Preterm birth is no longer synonymous with a bad outcome. Sometimes, it is necessary for a good one. --

The fleeting promise of art : Adorno's aesthetic theory revisited / / Peter Uwe Hohendahl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787627703321
• Autore: Hohendahl Peter Uwe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8014-6927-9; 1-322-52316-9; 0-8014-6928-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 111/.85092
• Soggetti: Aesthetics, German - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Human Freedom and the Autonomy of Art: The Legacy of Kant -- 2. The Ephemeral and the Absolute: The Truth Content of Art -- 3. Aesthetic Violence: The Concepts of the Ugly and Primitive -- Part II -- 4. Reality, Realism, and Representation -- 5. A Precarious Balance: Rereading German Classicism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980's. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic Theory along with Adorno's other writings on aesthetics in light of the unexpected return of the aesthetic to today's cultural debates. Is Adorno's aesthetic theory still relevant today? Hohendahl answers this question with an emphatic yes. As he shows, a careful reading of the work exposes different questions and arguments today than it did in the past. Over the years Adorno's concern over the fate of art in a late capitalist society has met with everything from suspicion to indifference. In part this could be explained by relative unfamiliarity with the German dialectical tradition in North America. Today's debate is better informed, more multifaceted, and further removed from the immediate aftermath of the Cold War and of the shadow of postmodernism. Adorno's insistence on the radical autonomy of the artwork has much to offer contemporary discussions of art and the aesthetic in search of new responses to the pervasive effects of a neoliberal art market and culture industry. Focusing specifically on Adorno's engagement with literary works, Hohendahl shows how radically transformative Adorno's ideas have been and how thoroughly they have shaped current discussions in aesthetics. Among the topics he considers are the role of art in modernism and postmodernism, the truth claims of artworks, the function of the ugly in modern artworks, the precarious value of the literary tradition, and the surprising significance of realism for Adorno.