{"product_id":"dangerous-pregnancies-mothers-disabilities-and-abortion-in-modern-america-paperback","title":"Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie J. Reagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDangerous Pregnancies \u003c\/i\u003etells 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. Award-winning writer Leslie J. Reagan 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, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Pregnancies \u003c\/i\u003epowerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives, pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompellingly attentive to medical and legal structures, but also to dramatic human choices, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Pregnancies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a boldly argued and carefully documented historical grounding for critical debates in public policy and women's rights.--David Roediger, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Race Survived U.S. History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both a gripping story of the activism of middle-class mothers and an insightful study of abortion law reform, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Pregnancies\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling argument about reproductive rights, immunization, and the public health power of the state. A terrific book.\"--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003e\"Bad\" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Accessible and clearly written, Reagan's illuminating account of German measles is immensely valuable both in itself and as a window into larger issues of gender, public health, and bioethics.\"--Charles Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cholera Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie J. Reagan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History, with affiliations in gender and women's studies, law, media and cinema studies, and medicine, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States 1867-1973\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMedicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424924885094,"sku":"9780520274570","price":63.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UlZBeHJqRjdxVEJHQWZKM1BybUJSQT09.webp?v=1775616629","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/dangerous-pregnancies-mothers-disabilities-and-abortion-in-modern-america-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}