| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910818892603321 |
|
|
Autore |
Reagan Leslie J |
|
|
Titolo |
Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America / / Leslie J. Reagan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-280-67830-5 |
9786613655233 |
0-520-94500-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (390 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Abnormalities, Human - United States - History |
Abortion - United States - History |
Disability awareness - United States - History |
Rubella in pregnancy - United States - History |
Rubella - United States - History |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |