Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America

Summary: "Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781469669700
ISBN: 9781469669694
ISBN: 1469669706
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ISBN: 9781469669724
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Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Computer data.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.22 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	An anatomy of knowledge -- Calling the midwife -- The physician and the corpse -- Slavery, civilization, and the body politic -- Freedom and the reconstruction of bodies -- From midwives to physicians -- From bodies to minds -- The emergence of rights.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2022).