1. The Doctor, the Profession, his Patient and her Abortion -- 2. Woman, Medicine and Abortion in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. The Abortion Act 1967: Supporting Narratives -- 4. The Abortion Act 1967: Opposing Narratives -- 5. Employing the Body and Industrial Foetal Protection -- 6. New Reproductive Technologies: the (Post)modern Prometheus -- 7. Legislating for the Monstrous: the Monstrous Feminine and Access to Reproductive Services -- 8. Concluding Narratives: Applying the Past
Summary
Reproducing Narrative sets out to interrogate a number of medico-legal reproductive discourses. Recognising that these dialogues are heavily imbricated in social, political and economic discourses it is contended that responses to reproductive issues are influenced, and possibly determined, by non-reproductive concerns at both a parochial and more general level. Privileged medico-legal discourses become understood as technologies of gender-important sites at which gender is constituted
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Originally published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing
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