Abortion and Medicine: A Sociopolitical History

Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-9

  Joffe, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion access, safety, and service obstacles persistance in parts of the world; Abortion and medicine sociopolitical history; Contemporary status of abortion "cup half full, half empty" quality in controversial issue; Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) abortion training in obstetrics and gynecology residency programs; Increased abortion training opportunities and legitimatizing abortion provision and Medical Students for Choice (MSFC); New technologies, new organizational forms; Physicians leading force in campaigns to criminalize abortion in USA; Shifting opinions about abortion and organized medicine and it's reluctance in abortion issues; Two parallel streams of abortion provision minimalist one by physicians and a broader extralegal one

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956651451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444313031.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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