Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America

by Leslie J. Reagan

Book Overview

Dangerous Pregnancies tells 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274571
• ISBN13: 9780520274570
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"