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245 10 a| Dangerous pregnancies :b| mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America /c| Leslie J. Reagan.;

300 a| xv, 372 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index.;

505 0 a| Observing bodies -- Specter of tragedy -- Wrongful information -- Law-making and law-breaking in an epidemic -- If unborn babies are going to be protected -- Epilogue: from anxiety to rights.;

520 a| This work 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. The author 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, this book illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.;

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Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in America / Leslie J. Reagan.

Author/creator	Reagan, Leslie J.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Description	xv, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Rubella--United States. --History. Rubella in pregnancy--United States. --History. Abortion--United States. --History. Abnormalities, Human--United States. --History. Disability awareness--United States. --History.

Contents	Observing bodies -- Specter of tragedy -- Wrongful information -- Law-making and law-breaking in an epidemic -- If unborn babies are going to be protected -- Epilogue: from anxiety to rights.
Abstract	This work 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. The author 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, this book illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-351) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Reagan, Leslie J. Dangerous pregnancies. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010
LCCN	2009030996
ISBN	9780520259034 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0520259033 (cloth : alk. paper)

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