Articulating Life's Memory offers a unique view of the history of
abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer's work moves beyond
general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides
specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on abortion
served to create cultural memory. Nineteenth-century medical texts
presented the act of abortion as a threat to the carefully
circumscribed concepts of nation and race. Stormer analyzes a
wealth of literature (and illustrations) from the period to explore
the rhetorical techniques that led early Americans to presume that
abortion put the integrity of all of American culture at risk. The
book's first part provides a layered context for understanding
medical practices within the rhetoric of memory formation and sets
early antiabortion efforts within the wider framework of
nineteenth-century biopolitics and racism. In Part II of the study,
Stormer examines the substance of the memory constituted by these
early medical practices. Making a major contribution to the study
of rhetoric, Articulating Life's Memory will be invaluable to
scholars researching reproductive rights and feminist and cultural
histories of medicine.
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