Sign of Pathology : U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s /

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"Examines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stormer, Nathan, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Retorik.
Aborter > historia.
Rhetoric.
Abortion.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rhetorique.
Public Policy > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Abortion, Induced > history
Abortion > United States > History.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : struggling through life
  • When abortion became a political-economic problem
  • Remembering, forgetting, and the secrets of life
  • "White man's plague" : anti-Malthusian memory work at the fin de siecle
  • "More wisdom in living" : neo-Malthusian memory work at midcentury
  • "The lesser of threatened evils" : therapeutic amnesias
  • Conclusion : seeking immunity.

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