...Freya L. Sonenstein Elise F. Jones, Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, Noreen Goldman, Stanley Henshaw, Richard Lincoln, Jeannie I. Rosoff, Charles F. Westoff, and Deirdre Wulf, Teenage Pregnancy in Industrialized Countries (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), 310 pp., $30.00...

... University Press, 1987), 204 pp., $27.95. Cheryl D. Hayes, Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1987), Volume I, 337 pp.; and Volume II, Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes, eds., Working Papers and Statistical Appendixes...

...George W. Dowdall Drew Humphries. Crack Mothers: Pregnancy, Drugs, and the Media . Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 206 pp. $30.00 cloth. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Egan, T. 1999 . A Drug Ran Its Course, Then Hid with Its Users. New York Times , 19 September...

...Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette “Selective pregnancy reduction” is a medical procedure used to reduce a multiple pregnancy, often a multiple pregnancy induced by in vitro fertilization or drug therapy. In such instances, healthy embryos are sacrificed in order to maximize the chances of survival of the...

...Magda Schaler-Haynes Carol Sanger . About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America . Cambridge : Belknap Press , 2017 . 320 pp. $29.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 In About Abortion , Carol Sanger serves up a textured, heavily...

... pregnancy on beliefs about people addicted to opioid pain relievers, perceptions of treatment effectiveness, policy attitudes, and emotional responses. Portraying a high socioeconomic status (SES) woman in the narrative lowered perceptions of individual blame for addiction and reduced public support for...

...Janet Golden This article examines the portrayal of pregnancy and alcohol in thirty-six national network evening news broadcasts (ABC, CBS, NBC). Early coverage focused on white, middle-class women, as scientific authorities and government officials warned against drinking during pregnancy. After...

...Miranda R. Waggoner Since the 1980s, maternal and child health experts have sought to redefine maternity care to include the period prior to pregnancy, essentially by expanding the concept of prenatal care to encompass the time before conception. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and...

.... Taking leave from work provides time for mothers to rest and recover from pregnancy and childbirth. Findings indicate that the current leave duration provided by the Family and Medical Leave Act, twelve weeks, may not be sufficient for mothers at risk for or experiencing postpartum depression...

... births in birth files and matched birth-death files for 1993 and 1995 in both states were used to analyze a number of variables related to maternal behavior during pregnancy,utilization of care before and after labor-delivery, patterns of obstetrical care at delivery, and birth outcomes. Under TennCare...

... (83.0 percent) were discharged to home care. Only 44.6 percent of the patients with uncompensated care had no insurance; 46.8 percent had some form of commercial insurance which covered part of the charges for care. The most common diagnosis for these patients was pregnancy and childbirth (22.8 percent...

..., and teen pregnancy prevention programs. All these potential gains, however, are threatened by political, economic, and logistical challenges to the PPACA and by flaws in the legislation itself. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Aaron H. J. 2010 . “The Midterm Elections...

... addition, systems changes are needed to ensure that women going through common life transitions, such as pregnancy, marriage, moving, or graduating from school, have continuous access to insurance, and therefore health services, as their lives change. These groups face barriers enrolling in and maintaining...

... having health insurance is associated with use of family planning services, this increase in Medicaid eligibility may result in fewer unintended pregnancies among this high-risk population. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Biggs M. A. Foster D. G. Hulett D. . 2010...

... identified and documented, nor has the basis for the deprivations of liberty been comprehensively examined. In this article we report on 413 cases from 1973 to 2005 in which a woman's pregnancy was a necessary factor leading to attempted and actual deprivations of a woman's physical liberty. First, we...

... hierarchy, to promote homogeneity, narrow-mindedness, and moralism about how to live one's life, and to cover for discrimination based on health, weight, income, age, pregnancy, and disability. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Wellness has been around for a while now, and critiques...

... of pregnancy and is clustered around particular body systems. We discuss the implications of our findings for the question of the constitutionality of informed consent laws as they have been implemented in practice. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 abortion women's reproductive...

... treatment during pregnancy, and her parental rights in the child she would conceive and bear. All of these rights would be transferred by contract to the man who planned to raise the child, or to the man and his wife; in the typical surrogacy case, the man would also be the biological father...

.... Forrest. 1985 . The Availability of Reproductive Health Services from U.S. Private Physicians. Family Planning Perspectives 17 ( 2 ): 63 -69. Piper , J. M. , W. A. Ray, and M. R. Griffin. 1990 . Effects of Medicaid Eligibility Expansion on Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Outcome in Tennessee...