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Subject(s)

• Abortion—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Schoen, Johanna [Browse]

Series

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine [More in this series]

Summary note

Abortion Care as Moral Work 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-178) and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Series Titles
• Chapter 7. Abortion as an Act of Conscience / Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
• Chapter 8. The Meaning of Viability in Abortion Care / Shelley Sella
• Chapter 9. Dangertalk: Voices of Abortion Providers / Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink, and Lisa H. Harris
• Part 4. The Fetus
• Chapter 10. How Science Is Made: Nineteenth-Century Embryology and Fetal Interpretations / Shannon K. Withycombe
• Chapter 11. A Feminist Defense of Fetal Tissue Research / Thomas V. Cunningham
• Chapter 12. Definitions of Viability and Their Meaning for Neonatal Care / John Colin Partridge
• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Providing Abortion Care
• Part 1. Providers
• Chapter 1. A Narrative / Morris Turner
• Chapter 2. Being an Abortionist / Marc Heller
• Chapter 3. Establishing Abortion Counseling / Terry Beresford
• Part 2. Clinics
• Chapter 4. Providing Compassionate Abortion Care in a Hostile Climate / Amy Hagstrom Miller
• Chapter 5. Improving Abortion Care One Clinic at a Time / Renee Chelian
• Part 3. Conscience
• Chapter 6. From Conscience Clauses to Conscience Wars / Sara Dubow

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ISBN

• 0-8135-9728-5
• 0-8135-9730-7

OCLC

1336404389

Doi

• 10.36019/9780813597300

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