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Ourselves unborn : a history of the fetus in modern America
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Traces how Americans from widely different backgrounds have fought over the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.--f...
Traces how Americans from widely different backgrounds have fought over the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.--from publisher's description.
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- Creator
- Sara Dubow
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- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
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- viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195323436, 0195323432
- OCLC
- ocn608618101
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-296) and index.
- Introduction : fetal stories -- Discovering fetal life, 1870s-1920s -- Interpreting fetal bodies, 1930s-1970s -- Defining fetal personhood, 1973-1976 -- Defending fetal rights, 1970s-1990s -- Debating fetal pain, 1984-2007 -- Epilogue : fetal meanings
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- Fetus -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Fetus -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
- Obstetrics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Perinatology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Fetus -- United States.
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- Beginning of Human Life -- United States.
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- Civil Rights -- history -- United States.
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- History, 19th Century -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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- History, 21st Century -- United States.
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- Personhood -- United States.
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- Public Policy -- United States.
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- Social Environment -- United States.
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