Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals by Freedman, Lori

Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978828865)

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Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals by Freedman, Lori

Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals

$32.95
Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals by Freedman, Lori

Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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One out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients' rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops' directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church's stance on sex, reproduction, and "life" itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.

Author: Lori Freedman
ISBN-10: 1978828861
ISBN-13: 9781978828865
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2023
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 0.80d
By Lori Freedman
By Lori Freedman
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LORI FREEDMAN is a sociologist, bioethicist, and professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care.

DEBRA STULBERG is a professor and department chair of family medicine at the University of Chicago.

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