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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.
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (July 9, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520274571
ISBN-13: 978-0520274570
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Well this editorial review makes it known: ""Intellectual."--Journal of American History"Yup, it is that all right.This is an academic history/medical book that only the dedicated layman would appreciate. You need to read it in small doses, otherwise it is a snore fest. Which is why I sent it off to a epidemiologist friend, he would like it just like all of his other graduate level text books.I only say that because I had to buy Advanced Engineering Mathematics from for a graduate level class, and I actually enjoy much of that math. But I realize that is not normal.
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