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Sign of pathology : U. S. medical rhetoric on abortion, 1800s-1960s / Nathan Stormer.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stormer, Nathan, 1966- author.
- Series:
- RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetori.
- The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--United States--History.
- Abortion.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages )
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : struggling through life
- When abortion became a political-economic problem
- Remembering, forgetting, and the secrets of life
- "White man's plague" : anti-Malthusian memory work at the fin de siecle
- "More wisdom in living" : neo-Malthusian memory work at midcentury
- "The lesser of threatened evils" : therapeutic amnesias
- Conclusion : seeking immunity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271066882
- 0271066881
- OCLC:
- 966885265
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