02487nam 2200625 450 991080615130332120230807221114.00-271-06688-110.1515/9780271066882(CKB)3710000000450472(SSID)ssj0001520312(PQKBManifestationID)12617389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001520312(PQKBWorkID)11536460(PQKB)10191041(OCoLC)966885265(MdBmJHUP)muse55594(MiAaPQ)EBC6224219(DE-B1597)584529(DE-B1597)9780271066882(OCoLC)1253312984(EXLCZ)99371000000045047220201001d2015 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrSign of pathology U. S. medical rhetoric on abortion, 1800s-1960s /Nathan StormerUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :Pennsylvania State University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (xi, 256 pages )The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoricBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-271-06555-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetori.AbortionUnited StatesHistoryRhetoricAbortion Rhetoric.Biopower Medicine.Pathology Memory Studies.AbortionHistory.Rhetoric.363.460973Stormer Nathan1966-1705590MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806151303321Sign of pathology4092420UNINA