The Resource Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America, Leslie J. Reagan
Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America, Leslie J. Reagan
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- Summary
- This work tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century, the reproductive rights and the disability rights movements. At most a minor rash and fever for women, German measles (also known as rubella), if contracted during pregnancy, could result in miscarriages, infant deaths, and serious birth defects in the newborn. The author chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate stories, including riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion, and startling media portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a disease that changed America, this book illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 372 p.
- Contents
-
- Observing bodies
- Specter of tragedy
- Wrongful information
- Law-making and law-breaking in an epidemic
- If unborn babies are going to be protected
- Epilogue : from anxiety to rights
- Isbn
- 9780520259034
- Label
- Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America
- Title
- Dangerous pregnancies
- Title remainder
- mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Leslie J. Reagan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This work tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century, the reproductive rights and the disability rights movements. At most a minor rash and fever for women, German measles (also known as rubella), if contracted during pregnancy, could result in miscarriages, infant deaths, and serious birth defects in the newborn. The author chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate stories, including riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion, and startling media portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a disease that changed America, this book illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reagan, Leslie J
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA644.R8
- LC item number
- R43 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rubella
- Rubella in pregnancy
- Abortion
- Abnormalities, Human
- Disability awareness
- Label
- Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America, Leslie J. Reagan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index
- Contents
- Observing bodies -- Specter of tragedy -- Wrongful information -- Law-making and law-breaking in an epidemic -- If unborn babies are going to be protected -- Epilogue : from anxiety to rights
- Control code
- 317461927
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 372 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520259034
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009030996
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317461927
- Label
- Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America, Leslie J. Reagan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index
- Contents
- Observing bodies -- Specter of tragedy -- Wrongful information -- Law-making and law-breaking in an epidemic -- If unborn babies are going to be protected -- Epilogue : from anxiety to rights
- Control code
- 317461927
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 372 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520259034
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009030996
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317461927
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