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In ''Making Parents'',<ref>Thompson, Charis. Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. MIT Press. June 2005.</ref>, Charis Thompson discusses Fetal surgery - operating on the fetus while it is still in the womb. This turns the mother and her unborn child into quasi subjects and quasi objects. They're both agents in the same way that agents are in actor network theory, but the mother can be treated as a subject of biomedical intervention but that the same way she's giving permission to preform those operations. That at any time we can be both subjects and objects in institutions that are more powerful than us and have control over us, yet we always have a certain amount of transformative opportunity that we can actualize inside these systems.  
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In ''Making Parents'',<ref>Thompson, Charis. Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. MIT Press. June 2005.</ref>, Charis Thompson discusses Fetal surgery - operating on the fetus while it is still in the womb. This turns the mother and her unborn child into quasi subjects and quasi objects. Both are agents in the same way that agents are in actor network theory. The mother can be treated as a subject of biomedical intervention, but at the same time she's giving permission for the institution to preform the operations. Thompson demonstrates that actors can, at any time, be both subjects and objects in institutions with a sizable amount of power and control over them, yet they have always had a certain amount of transformative opportunity that can be actualized inside those same systems.
  
 
===Related Reading===
 
===Related Reading===

Revision as of 22:09, 5 November 2011

In Making Parents,[1], Charis Thompson discusses Fetal surgery - operating on the fetus while it is still in the womb. This turns the mother and her unborn child into quasi subjects and quasi objects. Both are agents in the same way that agents are in actor network theory. The mother can be treated as a subject of biomedical intervention, but at the same time she's giving permission for the institution to preform the operations. Thompson demonstrates that actors can, at any time, be both subjects and objects in institutions with a sizable amount of power and control over them, yet they have always had a certain amount of transformative opportunity that can be actualized inside those same systems.

Related Reading

Actor-Network Theory

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, Charis. Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. MIT Press. June 2005.
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