204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the obstetrician-gynecologists in “Daleton,” a city that did not have an abortion clinic. The decision as to whether, when, and how to perform... Read more
1. Abortion as a Medical Responsibility 2. The Physician in the Abortion Controversy 3. Medical Practice and Family Planning in Daleton 4. The First-Trimester Abortion: Standard Procedures 5. The Second-Trimester Abortion: Limited Procedures 6. Innovation and the Refuge of Private Practice 7. Beyond the Politics of Abortion
Biography
Jonathan B. Imber
“This powerfully analytic, insight-provoking account . . . gives us intimate access to what he terms the ‘haunting ambivalence’ with which these physicians think and feel about the procedure of abortion. Imber brilliantly shows the empirical and symbolic relationship between this particular ‘doctor’s dilemma,’ and the current state of the ‘cultural legacy’ of the medical profession and the larger society of which it is a part.”
—Renée C. Fox, University of Pennsylvania
