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The Nursing Clio Reader

Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice

by Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Laura Ansley, Sarah E. Handley-Cousins, Emily Beckman, Cassandra Berman, Ciara Breathnach, Scottie Hale Buehler0, John A. Carranza1, Sara Collini2, Kathleen Crowther3, Cara Delay4, Catherine Denial5, Nora Doyle6, Michelle Drew7, Averill Earls8, Lea Eisenstein9, Mary Fissell0, Gillian Frank1, Lara Freidenfelds2, Joseph Gamble3, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine4, Evan Elizabeth Hart5, Sharon Folkenroth Hess6, Katrina Kimport7, Rebecca M. Kluchin8, Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich9, Modupe Labode0, Judith Walzer Leavitt1, Ian Lekus2, Kirsten Leng3, Amanda Mahoney4, Elizabeth Garner Masarik5, Michelle Moravec6, Lina-Maria Murillo7, Elizabeth Nelson8, W. Jake Newsome9, P. Mimi Bhatt0, Ayah Nuriddin1, Kelly S. O'Donnell2, Udodiri Okwandu3, Sarah Pripas-Kapit4, Elizabeth Reis5, Susan M. Reverby6, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez7, J. Nalubega Ross8, Ronit Stahl9, Nina Studer0, Sarah Swedberg1, Brianna Theobald2, Lauren MacIvor Thompson3, Stephanie Tillman4, Felicity M. Turner5, Theresa Ventura6, Maggie Vinter7, P. Mimi Niles8, Anna Weerasinghe9, Karen Weingarten0, Caitlin Reed Wiesner1, Samantha M. Williams2, Shannon Withycombe3, Cookie Woolner4, Professor Janet Golden5, Dr. Kylie Smith, Ph.D6 ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays ... Read more

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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays
... Read more
Queering Marriage

Challenging Family Formation in the United States

by Katrina Kimport ...

Series series Families in Focus
Co-Winner of the 2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section from the American Sociological AssociationOver four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as ... Read more

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Co-Winner of the 2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section from the American Sociological AssociationOver four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as
... Read more
No Real Choice

How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy

by Katrina Kimport ...

Series series Families in Focus
In the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach?Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the ... Read more

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In the United States, the “right to choose” an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn’t really have a choice? What if state laws, federal policies, stigma, and a host of other obstacles push that choice out of her reach?Based on candid, in-depth interviews with women who considered but did not obtain an abortion, No Real Choice punctures the
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When Roe Fell

How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible

by Barbara A. Alvarez, Whitney Arey, Danielle Bessett, Micki Burdick, Diana Greene Foster, Lori Freedman, Jenny Higgins, Jessie Hill, Erin Johnson, Klaira Lerma, Ophra Leyser-Whalen, Sara Matthiesen, Michelle L. McGowan, Jenny O'Donnell, Meredith Pensak, Lindsay Rae Ruhr, Jessica Sanders, Jane Seymour, Kelly Ward, Tracy A. Weitz, Alexandra Woodcock ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
When Roe Fell examines the history, politics, and practical experiences of abortion leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, placing this judicial decision in a longer history of abortion in the United States. Contributors delve into what the end of Roe revealed about abortion seekers, abortion provision, and abortion advocacy, demystifying abortion and abortion research, laying bare common ... Read more

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When Roe Fell examines the history, politics, and practical experiences of abortion leading up to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, placing this judicial decision in a longer history of abortion in the United States. Contributors delve into what the end of Roe revealed about abortion seekers, abortion provision, and abortion advocacy, demystifying abortion and abortion research, laying bare common
... Read more
Current Research on Information Technologies and Society

Papers from the 2013 Meetings of the American Sociological Association

Edited by Jennifer Earl, Katrina Kimport ...

Research on communication and information technologies is of growing importance to sociology and the interdisciplinary examination of communication and (new) media. This volume includes eight chapters examining recent developments in the field, illustrating the maturation, vibrancy, and diversity of this field of study as well as pointing to rich new avenues for scholarly exploration. ... Read more

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Research on communication and information technologies is of growing importance to sociology and the interdisciplinary examination of communication and (new) media. This volume includes eight chapters examining recent developments in the field, illustrating the maturation, vibrancy, and diversity of this field of study as well as pointing to rich new avenues for scholarly exploration.
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Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

by Dorothy Roberts ...

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

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An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a
... Read more

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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...

NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

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NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per
... Read more

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Without Apology

Writings on Abortion in Canada

Edited by Shannon Stettner ...

Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. ... Read more

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Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians.
... Read more
Scarlet A

The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

by Katie Watson ...

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the ... Read more

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Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the
... Read more

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Generation Roe

Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement

by Sarah Erdreich ...

Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those women are already mothers. Yet, the topic remains taboo. In this provocative book on the heels of the ... Read more

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Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those women are already mothers. Yet, the topic remains taboo. In this provocative book on the heels of the
... Read more
Evolution and Ethics of Eugenics

by Nicolae Sfetcu ...

As eugenics is defined, it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between science (medicine, genetic engineering) and eugenics as a included field. And to set a line over which genetic engineering should not go further, according to moral, legal and religious norms. If we accept the help of genetics in finding ways to fight cancer, diabetes, or HIV, we also accept positive eugenics as they ... Read more

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As eugenics is defined, it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between science (medicine, genetic engineering) and eugenics as a included field. And to set a line over which genetic engineering should not go further, according to moral, legal and religious norms. If we accept the help of genetics in finding ways to fight cancer, diabetes, or HIV, we also accept positive eugenics as they
... Read more
Dispatches from the Abortion Wars

The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

by Carole Joffe ...

Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right ... Read more

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Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to accessMore than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right
... Read more

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