Kelly O’donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly O’donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donnell |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONNELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thomas Jefferson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7055-870X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision Kelly O’Donnell (bio) and Naomi Rogers (bio) In September 1977, Rosaura Jimenez, a twenty-seven-year-old Mexican American single mother in McAllen, Texas, went to the home of Maria Pineda for a surgical abortion. Pineda, a midwife, was licensed to deliver babies but not to perform abortions. After the procedure Jimenez developed sepsis; several days later she died of organ failu…
Tech-ing the Trade
Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History Kelly O’Donnell (bio) In the introduction to her 2014 treatise Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, feminist author Katha Pollitt confessed that in the face of mounting legal restrictions and the degrading landscape of abortion care in many parts of the country, she found herself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex o…
Allies, not authorities
The Case Against the Doctors
In the 1960s, widespread popular-cultural deference to the authority of science and medicine in the United States began to wane as a generation of journalists and activists reevaluated and criticized researchers and physicians. This article uses the career of feminist journalist Barbara Seaman to show the role that the emerging genre of critical science writing played in this broader cultural shift. First writing from her position as a mother, th…
Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section
Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 336 pp. Kelly S O’Donnell Kelly S O’Donnell Thomas Jefferson University, 4201 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubM…
The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife
This essay uses gender as a category of historical and sociological analysis to situate two populations-boxers and victims of domestic violence-in context and explain the temporal and ontological discrepancies between them as potential brain injury patients. In boxing, the question of brain injury and its sequelae were analyzed from 1928 on, often on profoundly somatic grounds. With domestic violence, in contrast, the question of brain injury and…
Our Doctors, Ourselves
This essay examines the career of feminist journalist Barbara Seaman and her contribution to the circulation of health feminist ideas in the 1970s. Seaman, author of the influential exposé The Doctors' Case Against the Pill (1969), became a noted critic of women's health care and of gynecologists in particular. In her next book, Free and Female (1972), and in newspaper articles, interviews, and television appearances, she implored women to "liber…
Reproducing Jane
In the early 1970s, before the passage of Roe v. Wade, an underground feminist group in Chicago performed an estimated eleven thousand illegal abortions. Women’s liberation groups formed abortion referral services across the country, but the Abortion Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, known colloquially as “Jane” after the pseudonym its members adopted, was distinct, and its story has lingered in feminist consciousness while others …
Multi-Sectoral Member Care
How can we build on the substantial foundations of member care as we pursue new opportunities for impacting our needy world? We address this important question through the framework of Global Integration (GI) and multi-sectoral member care. GI is a framework for linking our integrity, skills, and values in order to address the major issues in our world. We present five strategic areas for connecting and contributing across sectors in member care …
Global Mental Health
Global mental health (GMH) is a growing domain with an increasing capacity to positively impact the world community's efforts for sustainable development and wellbeing. Sharing and synthesizing GMH and multi-sectoral knowledge, the focus of this paper, is an important way to support these global efforts. This paper consolidates some of the most recent and relevant 'context resources' [global multi-sector (GMS) materials, emphasizing world reports…
Global Mental Health
Global mental health (GMH) is a burgeoning domain of research, advocacy, and practice. Its daunting challenge is reflected in the expectation that one in four humans will experience a serious mental, neurological, or substance abuse condition in their lifetime. The world's poor are especially burdened, having the least access to care and plagued by social stigma and discrimination. In solidarity with the emerging GMH movement, which focuses on im…
Developing Member Care Affiliations
One of the recent developments in the care of missionary personnel has been the formation of regional inter-agency member-care affiliations (RIMAs). These groups help to identify and develop needed resources (e.g., team building workshops, crisis care networks, attrition research) on behalf of mission personnel in a specific region (e.g., West Africa, South Asia, German-speaking Europe). RIMAs reflect the growing cooperative efforts within both t…
Member Care in Missions
Member care has become a specialized discipline within missions, drawing on the contributions of Christian counseling and psychology, pastoral care, and human resource development. Much is happening in the international member care community, especially in North America and Europe. This article highlights some of the key developments that have shaped and are shaping this field. It also points out the need to develop and prioritize additional supp…
Developmental Tasks in the Life Cycle of Mission Families
This study focuses on some of the developmental tasks common to mission families. These tasks are discussed in terms of McGoldrick and Carter's (1982) six stages of the family life cycle. A tripartite developmental model of the mission family is also presented which takes into account the interaction of the family life cycle, individual psychosocial development, and the stages of mission involvement. Considering family developmental tasks in ligh…
Community Psychology and Unreached Peoples
This article explores the relationship between community psychology and frontier missions. Similarities between these two fields, such as their common perspectives on delivering services to underserved populations, provide points of contact between them. Specific focus is placed on community psychology contributions to missionaries and mission agencies in the area of needs and resource assessment The application of community psychology assessment…
The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife
This essay uses gender as a category of historical and sociological analysis to situate two populations-boxers and victims of domestic violence-in context and explain the temporal and ontological discrepancies between them as potential brain injury patients. In boxing, the question of brain injury and its sequelae were analyzed from 1928 on, often on profoundly somatic grounds. With domestic violence, in contrast, the question of brain injury and…
Community Psychology and Unreached Peoples
This article explores the relationship between community psychology and frontier missions. Similarities between these two fields, such as their common perspectives on delivering services to underserved populations, provide points of contact between them. Specific focus is placed on community psychology contributions to missionaries and mission agencies in the area of needs and resource assessment The application of community psychology assessment…
Developmental Tasks in the Life Cycle of Mission Families
This study focuses on some of the developmental tasks common to mission families. These tasks are discussed in terms of McGoldrick and Carter's (1982) six stages of the family life cycle. A tripartite developmental model of the mission family is also presented which takes into account the interaction of the family life cycle, individual psychosocial development, and the stages of mission involvement. Considering family developmental tasks in ligh…
Member Care in Missions
Member care has become a specialized discipline within missions, drawing on the contributions of Christian counseling and psychology, pastoral care, and human resource development. Much is happening in the international member care community, especially in North America and Europe. This article highlights some of the key developments that have shaped and are shaping this field. It also points out the need to develop and prioritize additional supp…
Developing Member Care Affiliations
One of the recent developments in the care of missionary personnel has been the formation of regional inter-agency member-care affiliations (RIMAs). These groups help to identify and develop needed resources (e.g., team building workshops, crisis care networks, attrition research) on behalf of mission personnel in a specific region (e.g., West Africa, South Asia, German-speaking Europe). RIMAs reflect the growing cooperative efforts within both t…
Global Mental Health
Global mental health (GMH) is a burgeoning domain of research, advocacy, and practice. Its daunting challenge is reflected in the expectation that one in four humans will experience a serious mental, neurological, or substance abuse condition in their lifetime. The world's poor are especially burdened, having the least access to care and plagued by social stigma and discrimination. In solidarity with the emerging GMH movement, which focuses on im…
Multi-Sectoral Member Care
How can we build on the substantial foundations of member care as we pursue new opportunities for impacting our needy world? We address this important question through the framework of Global Integration (GI) and multi-sectoral member care. GI is a framework for linking our integrity, skills, and values in order to address the major issues in our world. We present five strategic areas for connecting and contributing across sectors in member care …
Global Mental Health
Global mental health (GMH) is a growing domain with an increasing capacity to positively impact the world community's efforts for sustainable development and wellbeing. Sharing and synthesizing GMH and multi-sectoral knowledge, the focus of this paper, is an important way to support these global efforts. This paper consolidates some of the most recent and relevant 'context resources' [global multi-sector (GMS) materials, emphasizing world reports…
Reproducing Jane
In the early 1970s, before the passage of Roe v. Wade, an underground feminist group in Chicago performed an estimated eleven thousand illegal abortions. Women’s liberation groups formed abortion referral services across the country, but the Abortion Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, known colloquially as “Jane” after the pseudonym its members adopted, was distinct, and its story has lingered in feminist consciousness while others …
Our Doctors, Ourselves
This essay examines the career of feminist journalist Barbara Seaman and her contribution to the circulation of health feminist ideas in the 1970s. Seaman, author of the influential exposé The Doctors' Case Against the Pill (1969), became a noted critic of women's health care and of gynecologists in particular. In her next book, Free and Female (1972), and in newspaper articles, interviews, and television appearances, she implored women to "liber…
The Case Against the Doctors
In the 1960s, widespread popular-cultural deference to the authority of science and medicine in the United States began to wane as a generation of journalists and activists reevaluated and criticized researchers and physicians. This article uses the career of feminist journalist Barbara Seaman to show the role that the emerging genre of critical science writing played in this broader cultural shift. First writing from her position as a mother, th…
Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section
Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence Jacqueline H. Wolf. Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 336 pp. Kelly S O’Donnell Kelly S O’Donnell Thomas Jefferson University, 4201 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubM…
The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife
This essay uses gender as a category of historical and sociological analysis to situate two populations-boxers and victims of domestic violence-in context and explain the temporal and ontological discrepancies between them as potential brain injury patients. In boxing, the question of brain injury and its sequelae were analyzed from 1928 on, often on profoundly somatic grounds. With domestic violence, in contrast, the question of brain injury and…
Allies, not authorities
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision Kelly O’Donnell (bio) and Naomi Rogers (bio) In September 1977, Rosaura Jimenez, a twenty-seven-year-old Mexican American single mother in McAllen, Texas, went to the home of Maria Pineda for a surgical abortion. Pineda, a midwife, was licensed to deliver babies but not to perform abortions. After the procedure Jimenez developed sepsis; several days later she died of organ failu…
Tech-ing the Trade
Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History Kelly O’Donnell (bio) In the introduction to her 2014 treatise Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, feminist author Katha Pollitt confessed that in the face of mounting legal restrictions and the degrading landscape of abortion care in many parts of the country, she found herself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex o…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Health care (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · History (4 works) · Abortion (3 works)