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The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania (Contraversions, Critical Studies in Jewish Literature Culture and Society , No 11)

Gail Kligman - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe,...

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface

Leslie J. Reagan
Format: Paperback

The definitive history of abortion in the United States, with a new preface that equips readers for what's to come. When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-read book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study...

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

David Katz - LWW
Format: Paperback

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023!. Designed for busy clinicians struggling to fit the critical issue of nutrition into their routine patient encounters, Nutrition in Clinical Practice translates the robust evidence base underlying nutrition in health and disease into...

Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal (Medical Anthropology)

Siri Suh - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion laws and where NGOs relied on US family planning aid, PAC offered an apolitical approach to addressing the consequences...

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