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Author Reagan, Leslie J., author.

Title Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America / Leslie J. Reagan.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.

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 Axe EBSCO Clinical Nursing E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Abnormalities, Human -- United States -- History.
Abortion -- United States -- History.
Disability awareness -- United States -- History.
Rubella in pregnancy -- United States -- History.
Rubella -- United States -- History.
Rubella.
Abortion
Rubella
United States
Sensibilisation à la situation des personnes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Rubéole chez la femme enceinte -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Rubéole -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Rubéole.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Abnormalities, Human
Abortion
Disability awareness
Rubella
Rubella in pregnancy
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: 0520259033
Print version: 9780520259034
Print version: 9780520945005
ISBN 9780520945005 (electronic bk.)
052094500X (electronic bk.)
9780520259034 (print)
0520259033 (print)
Standard No. DEBBG BV040834121
DEBBG BV043160213
DEBBG BV044165576
DEBSZ 421408545
DEBSZ 431146357
NZ1 14691282
AU@ 000066764756

 
    
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