Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care

by Lori R. Freedman

Book Overview

Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stigma, violence, and political contention provide some explanation, her findings demonstrate that willing physicians are further encumbered by a variety of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826517145
• ISBN13: 9780826517142
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"