Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in AmericaNYU Press, 2008 M11 1 - 288 páginas Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section |
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... Doctors Most people are aware that abortion used to be considered a crime in the United States. Far fewer realize that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, abortion was essentially legal in America and first-trimester abortions ...
... doctor.” To address this problem, professional physicians launched what one headline heralded as a “Crusade against Quack Doctors.” An 1876 New York Times article announced the New York County Medico Society's crusade against “the ...
... doctors for help. Increasingly, physicians considered social conditions in making medical decisions about which abortions were “therapeutic,” that is, necessary to preserve a woman's life or health.20 During the same period, the site of ...
... doctors to keep the incidence of abortion low. The institutional support that these boards provided took the pressure off individual physicians whose abortion decisions might be challenged.24 Physicians and hospital boards were more ...
... doctors (who were overwhelmingly white and middle class) often suggested that by limiting the number of births in low-income, minority families, government spending on Medicaid and welfare programs could be reduced and the families ...
Contenido
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Bearing | 93 |
Mothering | 137 |
Being | 182 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 307 |
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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |