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Joffe Carole |
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Dispatches from the abortion wars : the costs of fanaticism to doctors, patients, and the rest of us / / Carole Joffe |
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Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Abortion - United States |
Pro-life movement - United States |
Abortion services - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The stigma of abortion -- "You need a community with you" : becoming an abortion provider -- The clinics : ground zero in the abortion wars -- Regulating abortion -- Hospital-based abortions : chaos, cruelty, and some accommodation -- Abortion patients and the "two Americas" of reproductive health -- "Every woman is different" : what good abortion care looks like -- What kind of America do we want? -- Afterword : "abortion is a perfectly proper noun" -- Postscript : the legacy of George Tiller. |
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Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma--cultivated by the religious right--operates to maintain barriers to access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers. Through compelling testimony from doctors, health-care workers, and patients, Joffe reports the lived experiences behind the polemics, while also offering hope for a more compassionate standard of women's health care. |
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