Abstract
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction: Restoring Nuance to the Imagination of the Fetus 2. The Story of Sa+kar+a+as and K++as Births: A Drama Involving Embryos 3. The Great Men of Jainism in Utero 4. A Womb With a View: The Buddhas Final Fetal Experiences 5. Life in the Womb: Conception and Gestation in Buddhist Scripture& Classical Indian Medical Literature 6. Philosophical Embryology: Buddhist Texts and the Ritual Construction of a Fetus 7. Tibetan Buddhist Narratives of the Forces of Creation 8. Feticide in the Punjab and Fetus Imagery in Sikhism 9. Embryology in the Ancient Near East 10. Famous Fetuses in Rabbinic Literature 11. The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature 12. A Prophet Emerging: Fetal Narratives in Islamic Literature 13. The Colossal Fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamericas Earliest Creation Story 14. Out of Place: Fetal References in Japanese Mythology and Cultural Memory 15. Seeing Like a Family: Fetal Ultrasound Images and Imaginings of Kin
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