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Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America / Leslie J. Reagan.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reagan, Leslie J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abnormalities, Human--United States--History.
- Abnormalities, Human.
- Abortion--United States--History.
- Abortion.
- Disability awareness--United States--History.
- Disability awareness.
- Rubella in pregnancy--United States--History.
- Rubella in pregnancy.
- Rubella--United States--History.
- Rubella.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960's 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. Award-winning writer Leslie J. Reagan 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, Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Epidemics, Reproduction, and the Fear of Maternal Marking
- ONE. Observing Bodies
- TWO. Specter of Tragedy
- THREE. Wrongful Information
- FOUR. Law Making and Law Breaking in an Epidemic
- FIVE. "If Unborn Babies Are Going to Be Protected"
- EPILOGUE. From Anxiety to Rights
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613655233
- 9781280678301
- 1280678305
- 9780520945005
- 052094500X
- OCLC:
- 794663826
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