First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized. An extraordinary history by one of its members, this is the...
Women's health services
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Author:Kaplan, LauraSummary: - Author:Haigh, JenniferSummary:
Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street clinic for almost a decade. But as anti-abortion protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia's days, an anxiety she manages with frequent visits to an affable pot dealer.
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A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been...
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Author:Stettner, Shannon, Burnett, Kristin, Hay, TravisSummary:When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in the country. In this volume, some of Canada’s foremost researchers challenge current...
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Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and...
