Social Questions, Medical Answers
Contesting British Abortion Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12425935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances Amery (University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-49 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxt003 |
| OpenAlex | W2153382912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
The 1967 Abortion Act, rather than granting women a ‘right’ to abortion, further entrenched medical power over women's reproductive capacities. Critiques of the Act have assumed that this process was uncomplicated for state actors, who had no qualms about this dispersal of power, and for the medical profession, which stepped in to fill this new regulatory role without question. This article argues that the medicalization of abortion was a fraught and incomplete process involving fundamental tensions over doctors’ responsibilities. It links medicalization to a process of governmentalization which requires constant renegotiation of the identities of doctors, women, and fetuses
Abortion · Medicalization · Political science · Power (physics · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Law
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |