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Abortion : a doctor's perspective / a woman's dilemma / Don Sloan with Paula Hartz.
- Title
- Abortion : a doctor's perspective / a woman's dilemma / Don Sloan with Paula Hartz.
- Author
- Sloan, Don M., 1928-
- Publication
- New York : Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1992]
- ©1992
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | HQ 767.5.U5 S565 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 257 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Dr. Don Sloan's historic memoir is a compassionate, perceptive and utterly candid account of his thirty years on the frontlines of the abortion-rights movement. As a young ob/gyn resident in the early 1960s, Dr. Sloan witnessed first hand the effects of botched illegal abortions. While helping a friend, he became involved in the abortion "underground" and went on as an advocate of legalization. After successfully lobbying for New York State's passage of the nation's.
- First law permitting abortion for the general public, he helped establish a clinic that would become a mecca for women all over the world. Dr. Sloan recalls all this and more in Abortion: A Doctor's Perspective/A Woman's Dilemma, as well as recounting the impact of abortion since it has become more widely available. As a practicing sex-and-marital therapist, Dr. Sloan has never wavered in his lifelong commitment to abortion rights, but he has also never stopped examining.
- The delicate balance between the rights of women and the rights of the newly created pregnancy. He includes case histories from his own files which dramatize the dilemma of abortion - a salvation for some women, a traumatic experience for others. Many women will find their own personal experiences mirrored here; and women who are about to make a decision on abortion will be helped to find their own best solutions.
- Subject
- Right to Life Movement
- Roe v. Wade
- Pro-choice movement > United States > History
- Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > Case studies
- Obstetricians > United States > Biography
- Gynecologists > United States > Biography
- Abortion
- Physicians
- Abortion, Induced
- Abortion, Legal
- Abortion, Criminal
- Mouvement pour la libéralisation de l'avortement > États-Unis > Histoire
- Avortement > Aspect moral > États-Unis > Études de cas
- Gynécologues > États-Unis > Biographies
- Avortement
- Médecins
- physicians
- Obstetricians
- Gynecologists
- Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects
- Pro-choice movement
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Personal Narrative
- Autobiography
- Case studies
- History
- Autobiographies.
- Récits personnels.
- Études de cas.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The making of an abortionist -- The bad old days -- Abortion on demand-the women's center -- Conflicts of interest: my dual career -- My niece, my judge -- The lessons of Darlene Bennett -- From beginning to end: the abortion itself -- The two faces of Larry Porter -- A study in contrasts -- The politics of abortion.
- ISBN
- 1556113412
- 9781556113413
- LCCN
- 92054459
- OCLC
- 26674954
- SCSB-10362294
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library