Misoprostol on trial
A descriptive study of the criminalization of an essential medicine in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5167672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mariana Prandini Assis (0000-0002-5566-2613, Universidade Federal de Goiás, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | e00272520-e00272520 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/0102-311x00272520 |
| PMID | 34730693 |
| OpenAlex | W3208064634 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-311X2021001005016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Misoprostol is a medicine with a "double" social life recorded in several places, including Brazil. Within formal and authorized health facilities, it is an essential medicine, used for life-saving obstetric procedures. On the streets, or in online informal markets, misoprostol is treated as a dangerous drug used to induce illegal abortions. In the Brazilian case, despite a rich anthropological and public health analysis of the social consequences of misoprostol's double life, there are no studies on the legal implications. This article offers such descriptive analysis, presenting and examining a comprehensive dataset of how Brazilian courts have treated misoprostol in the past three decades. It consists of an encompassing mapping of the "when, where, how, and who" of misoprostol criminalization in Brazil, pointing to the unjust consequences of the use of criminal law for the purpose of protecting public health
Abortion · Criminalization · Criminology · Descriptive research · Descriptive statistics · Misoprostol · Pregnancy · Public health · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Torture, Ethics, and Law
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Misoprostol
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Beyond the law
Women's experiences with the use of medical abortion in a legally restricted context
Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction and social change
The biomedicalisation of illegal abortion
Explaining Criminalization
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |