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Author Reagan, Leslie J., author

Title Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America / Leslie J. Reagan
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Abnormalities, Human
Abortion
Disability awareness
Rubella
Rubella in pregnancy
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009030996
ISBN 9780520945005
052094500X