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Articulating life's memory : U.S. medical rhetoric about abortion in the nineteenth century / Nathan Stormer.
Van Pelt Library HQ767.5.U5 S767 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stormer, Nathan, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--United States--History--19th century.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Abortion--United States--Religious aspects.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- Articulating Life's Memory offers a unique view of the history of abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer's work moves beyond general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on abortion served to create cultural memory. Nineteenth-century medical texts presented the act of abortion as a threat to the carefully circumscribed concepts of nation and race. Stormer analyzes a wealth of literature (and illustrations) from the period to explore the rhetorical techniques that led early Americans to presume that abortion put the integrity of all of American culture at risk. The book's first part provides a layered context for understanding medical practices within the rhetoric of memory formation and sets early antiabortion efforts within the wider framework of nineteenth-century biopolitics and racism. In Part II of the study, Stormer examines the substance of the memory constituted by these early medical practices. Making a major contribution to the study of rhetoric, Articulating Life's Memory will be invaluable to scholars researching reproductive rights and feminist and cultural histories of medicine.
- Contents:
- Part I Memory in Early Medical Abortion Opposition
- 1 Medical Practice, Memory, and Antiabortion Rhetoric 3
- 2 The Politics of Life and Memory 21
- 3 Somatic Confessions 41
- Part II Articulating a Memory of Life
- 4 Organic Discourse 63
- 5 Embodying a Matrix 89
- 6 Prenatal Space 119
- Conclusion: In Living Memory 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739104292
- 0739104306
- OCLC:
- 50113962
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