Shannon Withycombe
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Abortion Care as Moral Work
Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
Edited by Johanna Schoen
Rutgers University Press
This anthology brings together the voices of abortion providers, counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians. Authors address the motivations that lead them to offer abortion care, discuss how anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Nursing Clio Reader
Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice
Edited by The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, with Laura Ansley and Sarah E. Handley-Cousins; Preface by Jacqueline D. Antonovich
Rutgers University Press
A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change.
- Copyright year: 2025
Lost
Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
- Copyright year: 2019
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