Abortion Care As Moral Work : Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies.

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Schoen, Johanna [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
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1 online resource (203 pages)

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"Fetal and Maternal Bodies brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Contents
  • Introduction : Providing Abortion Care
  • Part 1: Providers
  • A Narrative / Morris Turner
  • Being an Abortionist / Marc Heller
  • Establishing Abortion Counseling / Terry Beresford
  • Part 2 : Clinics
  • Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile Climate / Amy Hagstrom Miller
  • Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a Time / Renee Chelian
  • Part 3 : Conscience
  • From Conscience Clauses to Conscience Wars / Sara Dubow
  • Abortion as an Act of Conscience / Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
  • The Meaning of Viability in Abortion Care / Shelley Sella
  • Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion Providers / Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. Harris
  • Part 4 : The Fetus
  • How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal Interpretations / Shannon K. Withycombe
  • A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue Research / Thomas V. Cunningham
  • Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal Care / John Colin Partridge.
ISBN
  • 9780813597300 ((electronic book))
  • 0813597307 ((electronic book))
LCCN
2021039250
OCLC
1266201308
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