Titlebook: Reproduction, Medicine and the Socialist State; Alena Heitlinger Book 1987 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Pro-Natalist Population Policiesgh controls do not always work. Aggregate fertility ultimately determines the survival of a given population (which, statistically speaking, depends upon excess of births over deaths), the growth and structure of the economy, the structure of the family or kin group (especially dependency ratios), a

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Reproductive Ideologies: Education for Parenthoodcy. For this reason, the system of ‘education for parenthood’ is much broader in scope, more specialised, more self-conscious and much more systematic than any comparable programme in a Western capitalist country. A variety of pro-natalist ideologies, making child-bearing seem ‘natural’ and thus obl

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Reproduction, Sex Equality and Protective Legislationf health hazards (including reproductive risks) to employees, (2) social security measures providing job guarantees and financial compensation during maternity leave, thus enabling women to combine their productive and reproductive roles, and (3) family legislation, upholding equality within marriag

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Abortionntry. In North America and most Western countries, abortion is seen as an essentially moral issue. It is generally discussed in terms of ‘control over women’s bodies’ (or a woman’s right to choose) versus ’protecting (or killing) the unborn child’. The former argument is clearly related to feminism,

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Pregnancy and Prenatal Careological process that is accomplished by social beings in particular social settings. It is both an individual and a social process: child-bearing is associated with a‘fixed’ biological person,’ but it is also subject to considerable social manipulation and control. In advanced industrial societies,

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Childbirthas focused on a broad range of issues connected with the ‘medicalisation of childbirth’, such as the displacement of midwives by male obstetricians, home and hospital confinements, the increasingly active medical management of birth, the value of mortality statistics, and the relevance of current re

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