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 abortions was therefore essentially up to the individual
doctor. Imber begins the volume with a historical survey of medical
views on abortion and the medical profession's response to the
legalization of abortion in the United States. Quoting extensively
from his interviews, he looks at various characteristics of doctors
that may affect their professional opinion on abortion: their age,
gender, religious background, and length of residence in the
community; the nature of their training and prior experience; and
the setting of the practice (whether group or solo). Imber found
that the physicians' reasons for agreeing or refusing to perform
abortions revealed considerable differences of opinion about how
they construe their responsibilities.
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