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Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America Cover Image

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Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America

Summary: "Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"--

Record details

ISBN: 1469669714
ISBN: 9781469669717
ISBN: 1469669722
ISBN: 9781469669724
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	An anatomy of knowledge -- Calling the midwife -- The physician and the corpse -- Slavery, civilization, and the body politic -- Freedom and the reconstruction of bodies -- From midwives to physicians -- From bodies to minds -- The emergence of rights.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE platform, viewed September 14, 2022).