4/ Queering death in the medical and health humanities

Invisible Labours

“…Paula felt that civil registration would potentially have made her foetus into a baby -if the legal and bureaucratic process had been possible in her case, this would have disrupted her own ontology of the foetus as non-baby. It might have put pressure on her to conform to cultural expectations about being a bereaved parent, as Böcker argues in relation to miscarriage certification in Germany (Kirey-Sitnikova et al 2021).…”