Dispatches from the abortion wars : the costs of fanaticism to doctors, patients, and the rest of us / / Carole Joffe

• Autore: Joffe Carole
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.198/8800973
• Soggetto topico: Abortion - United States; Pro-life movement - United States; Abortion services - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dispatches from the abortion wars
• ISBN: 0-8070-3503-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972354603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II