Dangerous Pregnancies
Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19903771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie J Reagan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dangerous Pregnancies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520945005 |
| OpenAlex | W4231253975 |
| Open Library | OL29657434M |
| ISBN | 9780520945005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
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 defects in the newborn. Award-winning writer Leslie J. Reagan chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate stories--including riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion, and startling media portraits of children with disabilities. In exploring a disease that changed America, Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics
Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Medicine · 20th century · Abnormalities, human · Abortion · Awareness · Congenital Abnormalities · Congenital Rubella Syndrome · Disability awareness · epidemiology · Forensic Medicine · General · History · Human Abnormalities · Induced Abortion · Infectious Pregnancy Complications · Medical · Preventive Medicine · Public health · Rubella · Rubella in pregnancy · Rubéole · Rubéole chez la femme enceinte · Sensibilisation à la situation des personnes handicapées · united states
Reproduction
Mad Men’s Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past
The Fertility of Scholarship on the History of Reproductive Rights in the United States
Biocolonial pregnancies
A Good Abortion Is a Tragic Abortion
Justifying an ideal first pregnancy age
Reproduction
Pregnancy Without Women
Medicalizing Reproduction
Women on the Edge
The Costs of Contradictory Messages About Live Vaccines in Pregnancy
A machine for recreating life’
Regulating cinematic stories about reproduction
Neoliberal Mothering and Vaccine Refusal
Before the Refrain
Opting Out
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |