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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 October 2009
      20 October 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511563683
      9780521894135
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563683
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Science Handbooks, British History after 1450, History, History of Medicine
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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    Subjects:
    Science Handbooks, British History after 1450, History, History of Medicine
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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    Ranging from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1980s, this book focuses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. Little academic attention has hitherto been given to the development and scope of abortion law in England, the formative influence of the medical profession, and the impact of the law on medical practice. Consequently, Dr Keown considers the performance of abortion by doctors, and the influence the medical profession had on the restriction of the law in the nineteenth century and on its relaxation in the twentieth. The book does not deal directly with the legal status of the unborn child, the rights and duties of its parents and of the doctors involved in the provision of abortion or the question of the desirability of reform. Rather, adopting a socio-legal perspective, it considers what the scope of the prohibition of abortion has been and focuses on aspects of professional influence on the evolution of that prohibition, and of professional practice thereunder.

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    ‘… excellent and timely … thorough and dispassionate.’

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    ‘… a clear and illuminating work of scholarship and distinction.’

    Source: Annals of Science

    ‘… a much needed authoritative guide to the history of the law on abortion and an excellent case study in the social history of medicine.’

    Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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