(Mis)Conceptions: A Cultural History of Pregnancy Indeterminacy

（错误）观念：妊娠不确定性的文化史

• 批准号: AH/X006530/1
• 负责人: Isabel Davis
• 金额: $ 25.03万
• 依托单位: Natural History Museum
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX006530%2F1
• 关键词: Mis; Conceptions; Cultural; History; Pregnancy

(Mis)Conceptions is a cultural history of the uncertainty before pregnancy outcomes are known. Reproductive uncertainty, often a preliminary or side-topic in reproductive historical research, is here centrally defining. Diagnostic ambiguity affects pregnancy; failed pregnancy, faked, denied or hidden pregnancy; or conditions that resemble pregnancy. Uncertain states could be extended, recurrent, or chronic before foetal imaging and modern diagnostic technologies. This project shows that pregnancy indeterminacy was widely lived, afforded extensive space and explicitly discussed in historical writing. At the same time, (Mis)Conceptions raises awareness of the fact that, although it is now encountered differently, pregnancy uncertainty isn't only a thing of the past. Can historical insight make that experience more culturally visible or better understood?(Mis)Conceptions resists a teleological approach to reproduction by de-emphasizing outcomes. Instead, the project foregrounds ontology and epistemology as problems shared by medical and historical writers, drawing a productive analogy between the historical archive and the body. Thinking about diagnosis and history writing together brings new perspectives on the subjective search for proof: the nature of evidence, classifications of signs/symptoms, experimental practice, experience and authority. (Mis)Conceptions particularly addresses pregnancy's negative history. The proofs of not conceiving are harder to find. This project explores the myths and other fictional forms which emerge in the absence of knowledge.Through the culturally overdetermined case of Mary Tudor (1516-58), who suffered two non-reproductive pregnancy events, I will focus on myths and fictions generated at the intersection of historiographical and medical writing. How have historians and medical writers, at different historical junctures, conspired to engender twin gothic monsters: Mary and ambiguous non-reproductive experiences? (Mis)Conceptions takes a cultural historical, feminist approach, asking not only about how reproductive indeterminacy and non-reproduction were understood in the medieval world in which Mary was socialised, but also how Mary's case shaped later medical or fictional ideas about reproductive indeterminacy which have, in turn, fed back into accounts of her reign and its colonial and sectarian politics. These investigations consider how different historical moments gathered in, synthesized, and interpreted prior texts and ideas to create new pictures of both the body and the past. How does pregnancy ambiguity inform us about cultures of history making, and how does a study of historical practice alter our understandings of pregnancy ambiguity?An imaginative leadership agenda in public engagement will marshal conceptual pre-modern materials from the rich hinterland of this single example - e.g. future forecasting, theories of mind and body, diagnostic tools and techniques, and experimental practice - to contribute to debates about contemporary fertility health. An interdisciplinary engagement team - including a visual artist - will work with two focus groups (1. fertility counsellors and counselling students; 2. people with experience of trying to conceive) to develop public resources which use historical ideas and aesthetics to research the psychology of pregnancy indeterminacy today. How did people negotiate, ameliorate and tolerate the reproductive unknown in the past, and can history and art help understand modern fertility experience? This engagement agenda uses history and art to create a 'space apart', beyond the self, establishing an alternative vantage point on the experience of reproductive uncertainty. The team will carry public engagement learning back into academic conversations about using history to challenge unexamined assumptions and historical legacies that shape current experience, and to articulate the pleasure and value of investigating the past.

（MIS）概念是妊娠结局之前的不确定性的文化历史。生殖不确定性通常是生殖历史研究中的初步或副主席，在这里是在这里定义的。诊断歧义会影响怀孕；怀孕失败，伪造，拒绝或隐藏的怀孕；或类似于怀孕的情况。在胎儿成像和现代诊断技术之前，不确定的状态可以扩展，经常性或慢性。该项目表明，怀孕不确定性是广泛的，提供了广泛的空间，并在历史写作中明确讨论。同时，（MIS）概念提高了人们对以下事实的认识：尽管现在遇到了不同的事实，但怀孕的不确定性不仅是过去。历史洞察力能否使这种体验在文化上更可见或更好地理解？（MIS）概念通过取消强调结果来抵制一种目的论方法来繁殖。取而代之的是，该项目将本体论和认识论作为医学和历史作家分享的问题，在历史档案和身体之间进行了富有成效的比喻。思考诊断和历史写作，带来了关于证据的主观搜索的新观点：证据的性质，体征/症状的分类，实验实践，经验和权威。 （MIS）概念特别解决了怀孕的负面病史。很难找到不受孕的证据。该项目探讨了在缺乏知识的情况下出现的神话和其他虚构形式。通过玛丽·厄尔（Mary Tudor）的文化过多的案例（1516-58），他们遭受了两次非复制性怀孕事件的事件，我将重点关注在史地上产生的神话和虚构事件。在不同历史连接处，历史学家和医学作家如何同谋产生双胞胎哥特式怪物：玛丽和模棱两可的非生产经历？ (Mis)Conceptions takes a cultural historical, feminist approach, asking not only about how reproductive indeterminacy and non-reproduction were understood in the medieval world in which Mary was socialised, but also how Mary's case shaped later medical or fictional ideas about reproductive indeterminacy which have, in turn, fed back into accounts of her reign and its colonial and sectarian politics.这些调查考虑了不同的历史时刻如何聚集，合成和解释先前的文本和思想，以创建身体和过去的新图片。怀孕歧义如何向我们告知历史创造文化，以及对历史实践的研究如何改变我们对怀孕歧义的理解？在公众参与中，富有想象力的领导力议程将使这个单个例子的丰富腹地构成概念性的概念性的概念性的概念性材料，例如。未来的预测，思想和身体理论，诊断工具和技术以及实验实践 - 为有关当代生育健康的辩论做出贡献。一个跨学科的参与团队（包括视觉艺术家）将与两个焦点小组（1。生育顾问和咨询学生； 2。具有试图受孕经验的人）开发使用历史思想和美学来研究怀孕心理不确定性的公共资源。人们如何谈判，改善和容忍过去的生殖未知，历史和艺术能否帮助了解现代的生育经验？这种参与议程利用历史和艺术来创造一个“空间”，而不是自我，从而建立了替代性的有利位置，即生殖不确定性的经验。该团队将把公众参与学习重新回到有关使用历史来挑战未见的假设和历史遗产的学术对话中，这些假设和历史遗产塑造了当前的经验，并表达了调查过去的乐趣和价值。