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I'm sorry for my loss : an urgent examination of reproductive care in America
Long, Colleen2024
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Rebecca Little and Colleen Long are journalists and childhood friends who both experienced pregnancy losses past 20 weeks. In the days, weeks, and months that followed, they searched desperately for information to help them process what they had been through. But they found nothing. So, Rebecca and Colleen began to research. Diving deep into the history, culture, and science around pregnancy loss, they discovered that the helplessness and loneliness they felt was not a coincidence. Over the past several decades, American culture has been placing more and more emphasis on the rights and life of the fetus-at the cost and well-being of the mother. Politics, history, racism, misogyny, capitalism, and medicine have been working separately and together to choke off grief related to pregnancy loss. In their first book, I'm Sorry for My Loss, Rebecca and Colleen weave together deep research into laws, pop culture, medicine, and history with powerful personal narratives to offer readers a comprehensive sociological look at how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and what a system of more compassionate care could and should look like.
Main title:
I'm sorry for my loss : an urgent examination of reproductive care in America / by Colleen Long, Rebecca Little.
Author:
Imprint:
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2024.
Collation:
460 pages 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
There are no words : the inadequacy of the language for pregnancy lossHow to make an American baby : the modern resonance of reproduction in earlier erasHey, we might actually survive this : medical and social advances in pregnancyModern miscarriage : how birth control, "choice," and home pregnancy tests transformed pregnancy lossThe puppetry of the fetus : how images of the unborn redefined abortion and miscarriageMedical mystery : scientific uncertainty that comes from ignoring the right questionsNothing about this is simple : miscarriage, stillbirth, and other complicationsSick and dying : how discrimination creates circumstances for pregnancy lossHow birthing bodies are regulated : the laws that increasingly govern pregnancyPoliticians, restrictions and laws, oh my! : the mess when we mix politics and medicineWhen pregnancy loss is a crime : the legal peril around the loss of a babyLife and death certificates : how a piece of paper came to define lossThe stories we tell : myths and narratives around pregnancy and lossTalismans : the growing market for objects that commemorate pregnancy lossMourning rituals : muddling through a way to grieve.
ISBN:
9781728292786 (paperback)
Dewey class:
618.392
Language:
English
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BRN:
516548
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 618.392 IMS | Onloan - Due: 06 Mar 2025 |