Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Epidemics, Reproduction, and the Fear of Maternal Marking One. Observing Bodies Two. Specter of Tragedy Three. Wrongful Information Four. Law Making and Law Breaking in an Epidemic Five. "If Unborn Babies Are Going to Be Protected" Epilogue: From Anxiety to Rights Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Leslie J. Reagan is Professor of History, with affiliations in gender and women's studies, law, media and cinema studies, and medicine, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States 1867-1973 (UC Press) and coeditor of Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television.

Reviews

"Previously confidential, unpublished court cases and individual accounts add to the uniqueness of Reagan's historical angle." Foreword "Ultimately inspiring story that should be required reading for anyone who doubts the benefits of vaccines." -- Jo Marchant New Scientist "Intellectual." -- Margaret Marsh Journal Of American History "Fascinating." -- Mary Devereux Journal Of Clinical Investigation "Powerfully moving, historically precise, and politically relevant." -- Carol Mason American Studies "Its historical approach lays the groundwork for future understandings of the fears and other emotions aroused by diseases, particularly for marginalized populations and/or during an epidemic." Bioethical Inquiry