Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America
Reagan, Leslie J.,
Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America [E-Book] - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Dangerous Pregnancies 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 defe.
9780520945005 052094500X
22573/cttt0kjd JSTOR BB123DF3-4D3B-40AE-A04D-7103896D642F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Abnormalities, Human--History.--United States
Abortion--History.--United States
Disability awareness--History.--United States
Rubella in pregnancy--History.--United States
Rubella--History.--United States
Rubella.
Abortion
Rubella
United States
United States.
WC 582 / R434 2010eb
Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America [E-Book] - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Dangerous Pregnancies 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 defe.
9780520945005 052094500X
22573/cttt0kjd JSTOR BB123DF3-4D3B-40AE-A04D-7103896D642F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Abnormalities, Human--History.--United States
Abortion--History.--United States
Disability awareness--History.--United States
Rubella in pregnancy--History.--United States
Rubella--History.--United States
Rubella.
Abortion
Rubella
United States
United States.
WC 582 / R434 2010eb