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  3. Abortion, Doctors and the Law
  • Cited by 48
  • John Keown, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2009
Print publication year:
1988
Online ISBN:
9780511563683
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563683
Subjects:
Science Handbooks, British History after 1450, History, History of Medicine
Series:
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘… excellent and timely … thorough and dispassionate.’

Source: Legal Studies

‘… 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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