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Victoria Browne: A Philosophy of Miscarriage

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The Importance of Function and Purpose in Biology

Having a womb that reproduces is seen as something kind of essential to normative womanhood. So there's the kind of essentialism that I think remains really rife, really pervasive. And then the other way I looked at it was actually more within the kind of through the biomedical lens, but also within philosophy of biology. "There's just lots of interesting debates in philosophy of biology," she says.

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