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Blaming Mothers : American Law and the Risks to Children's Health /
A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers.Are mothers truly a danger to their children's health? In 2004, a mentally disabled young woman in Utah was charged by prosecutors with murder after she declined to have a Caesarian section and subsequen...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction to risk
- Are mothers hazardous to their children's health?
- The social, psychological, and legal construction of risk
- How healthy are America's children? : myths and realities
- Part II. Mothers as vectors of risk
- Conceptions of risk : legal and medical interventions against pregnant women
- Drug use by pregnant women: context and consequences
- Caught in the crossfire : breastfeeding (or not) as dangerous behavior
- The "good mother" and crimes of omission
- Part III. Environmental hazards to children : toxic substances and contagious diseases
- Childhood lead poisoning and other people's children
- The vaccination paradox
- Part IV. A new framework for risk assessment and risk reduction
- Moving beyond blame: real solutions for children's health.