Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Restoring Nuance to Imagining the Fetus -- The Story of Samkarsana's and Krsna's Births: A Drama Involving Embryos -- The Great Men of Jainism In Utero: A Survey -- A Womb with a View: The Buddha's Final Fetal Experience -- Life in the Womb: Conception and Gestation in Buddhist Scripture and Classical Indian Medical Literature -- Philosophical Embryology: Buddhist Texts and the Ritual Construction of a Fetus -- Tibetan Buddhist Narratives of the Forces of Creation -- Female Feticide in the Punjab and Fetus Imagery in Sikhism -- Embryology in Babylonia and the Bible -- The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature -- "Famous" Fetuses in Rabbinic Narratives -- A Prophet Emerging: Fetal Narratives in Islamic Literature -- The Colossal Fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica's Earliest Creation Story -- Out of Place: Fetal References in Japanese Mythology and Cultural Memory -- Seeing Like a Family: Fetal Ultrasound Images and Imaginings of Kin -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.