Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
ISBN-13:
9780520259034
ISBN-10:
0520259033
Edition:
F First Edition Used
Author:
Leslie J. Reagan
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Hardcover
392 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780520259034
ISBN-10:
0520259033
Edition:
F First Edition Used
Author:
Leslie J. Reagan
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
Format:
Hardcover
392 pages
Summary
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (ISBN-13: 9780520259034 and ISBN-10: 0520259033), written by authors
Leslie J. Reagan, was published by University of California Press in 2010.
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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 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.
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