the origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900 /
First Statement of Responsibility
James C. Mohr.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1978.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 331 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Abortion in America, 1800-1825 -- 2. First wave of abortion legislation, 1821-1841 -- 3. Great upsurge of abortion, 1840-1880 -- 4. Social character of abortion in America, 1840-1880 -- 5. Transitional legislation of 1840-1860 -- 6. Physicians' crusade against abortion, 1857-1880 -- 7. Public opinion and the abortion issue, 1860-1880 -- 8. Anti-abortion legislation, 1860-1880 -- 9. Anti-abortion as American policy, 1880-1900 -- Afterword : the Roe decision.
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Appendices. I, Case studies from medical publications involving abortions in the United States, 1839-79 -- II, Case studies from medical publications involving abortions in the United States, 1880-1900 -- III, Anti-abortion activity on the part of state and local medical societies.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Chronicles the incidence of abortion in nineteenthand twentieth-century America and the causes and processes of the profound social change which resulted, by 1900, in the nearly universal legal proscription of abortion.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Roe v. Wade.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Abortion-- Law and legislation-- United States-- History.