Book ID: CBB000076795

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 (1997)

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Reagan, Leslie J. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xiii + 387 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Hall, L.A. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Social History of Medicine (pp. 159-60). unapi

Review Harsch, D. (1999) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Journal of Policy History (pp. 89-93). unapi

Review Bailey, B. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Journal of Social History (pp. 427-29). unapi

Review Brodie, J.F. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 432-33). unapi

Review Helminski, F. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 566-67). unapi

Review Hewitt, N.A. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". American Historical Review (pp. 988-89). unapi

Review Brookes, B. (1998) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 561-62). unapi

Review Garrow, D.J. (1997) Review of "When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973". Journal of American History (pp. 1091-92). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Solomon, Susan Gross
Delay, Cara
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Sundstrom, Beth
Oxana Kosenko
Ware, Madeleine
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
Journal of Policy History
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Social Studies of Science
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Publishers
Vanderbilt University Press
University of California Press
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Abortion
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Reproductive medicine
Women and health
Medicine and law
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
British Isles
Okinawa
South Carolina (U.S.)
Japan
Greece
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