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Sign of Pathology - U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s (Hardcover)
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Sign of Pathology - U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s (Hardcover)
Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is
rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this
conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent
debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer
reframes our understanding of this conflict by examining the
medical literature on abortion from the 1800s to the 1960s. Often
framed as an argument over a right to choose versus a right to
life, our current understanding of this conflict is as a contest
over who has the better position on reproductive biology. Against
this view, Sign of Pathology argues that, as it became a medical
problem, abortion also became a template, more generally, for
struggling with how to live—far exceeding discussions of the
merits of providing abortions or how to care for patients. Abortion
practices (and all the legal, moral, and ideological entanglements
thereof) have rested firmly at the center of debate over many
fundamental institutions and concepts—namely, the individual, the
family, the state, human rights, and, indeed, the human. Medical
rhetoric, then, was decisive in cultivating abortion as a mode of
cultural critique, even weaponizing it for discursive conflict on
these important subjects, although the goal of the medical practice
of abortion has never been to establish this kind of struggle.
Stormer argues that the medical discourse of abortion physicians
transformed the state of abortion into an indicator that the
culture was ill, attacking itself during and through pregnancy in a
wrongheaded attempt to cope with reproduction.
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