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Death investigation in America : coroners, medical examiners, and the pursuit of medical certainty
Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? In this unique political and cultural history, Jeffrey Jentzen draws on archives, interviews, and his own career as a medical examiner to look at the way that a long-standing professional and political rivalry controls public medical knowledge and public health.
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Death Investigation in America
Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? In this unique political and cultural history, Jeffrey Jentzen draws on archives, interviews, and his own career as a medical examiner to look at the way that a long-standing professional and political rivalry controls public medical knowledge and public health.
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Rethinking Abortion
Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from metaphysical critiques of privacy, Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation witnessed in the twentieth century: pre-Roe v. Wadestatutory prohibitions on abortion andRoe'sban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that beforeRoe,pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional commitment to equal justice. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality.
Abortion should remain legal, Graber argues, because statutory bans on abortion have a history of being enforced in ways that intentionally discriminate against poor persons and persons of color. In the years beforeRoe, the same law enforcement officials who routinely ignored and sometimes assisted those physicians seeking to terminate pregnancies for their private patients too often prevented competent abortionists from offering the same services to the general public. This double standard violated the fundamental human and constitutional right of equal justice under law, a right that remains a major concern of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Linking Midwives and Abortion in the Progressive Era
During 1890-1920, physicians, public health workers, and reformers across the US debated the practice of abortion by midwives. The author traces the nature of the development of the intertwined campaigns against midwives and abortion in Chicago. In Chicago, nearly all midwives were foreign-born and practiced in immigrant neighborhoods. A debate which began in the medical profession became part of popular discourse and political action. As the medical story of midwives and abortion caught the attention of different groups, each gave the story its own emphasis. Nonetheless, all advanced the obstetricians' program to restrict midwives' practices. The combined campaign to control abortion and midwifery took the form of a classic Progressive Era reform movement: a coalition of private interest groups of the native-born, white middle class identified a problem, investigated and documented its extent, and mobilized to promote a state-sponsored solution. The problem of midwives and abortion tended to be located among the city's immigrant population. The author stresses that neither the perception that immigrant midwives posed a problem nor the tendency to link midwives with abortion was unique to Chicago physicians and reformers. The leaders of medicine and reform in Chicago not only advocated midwife regulations in their own city, but also held considerable influence in the shaping of national health policy.
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Speaking for the Dead: Forensic Pathologists and Criminal Justice in the United States
This essay explores the efforts of forensic pathologists in the United States to establish the intellectual and social territory of their specialty, both inside and outside of medicine, and to control the institutional context of its practice. This process pitted forensic pathologists against powerful political machines for control of the coroner's office, where the application of medical knowledge legitimized social policy; against the legal profession for control of the application of forensic science in the courts; and against fellow members of the American medical profession for control of entry to the specialty.
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“About to Meet Her Maker”: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940
Illinois' interest in obtaining dying declarations in order to prosecute abortionists, the intimate questioning undergone by women during investigations into abortion and the manner in which physicians and hospitals served the state in gathering evidence in criminal abortion cases are examined. Data used cover the Chicago area from 1867-1940.
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