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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.
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.
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.
What if rhetoric and climate are intimately connected? Taking
climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, A Reading
Group offers a generative framework for making sense of rhetorical
studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by antiracist,
decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship
to a tradition with a long history of being centered around
individual, usually privileged, human agents wielding language as
their principal instrument. Understanding the atmospheric and
ambient energies of rhetoric underscores the challenges and
promises of trying to heal a harmed world from within it. A
cowritten “multigraph,” which began in 2018 as a reading group,
this book enacts an intimate, mutualistic spirit of shared critical
inquiry and play—an exciting new way of doing, thinking, and
feeling rhetorical studies by six prominent scholars in rhetoric
from communication and English departments alike.
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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