ABSTRACT
John Macmurray's "form of the personal" constructs a paradigm that differs from the technological and organic worldviews through which this chapter examines the experience of pregnancy. It discusses Silvia Finzi's challenge and "reflect on maternity" attempting to understand some of the physical and psychological processes that a pregnant woman undergoes, and the potential that the examination of such processes holds for enhancing our ethical understanding. Susan Squier concludes that visualization technologies have made the pregnancy "more real" and motherhood therefore "more immanent". She argues that the fetus has been given more "concrete social space and more subjectivity" than the gestating woman because attached to the image of the fetus are the dominant cultural metaphors. Squier states that one of the fetus's most powerful attributes is its "pure potentiality". As pure potential, it is powerful precisely because it never comes into being.
