Blaming Mothers : : American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health / / Linda C. Fentiman, Linda C. Fentiman.
A gripping explanation of the biases that lead to the blaming of pregnant women and mothers.Are mothers truly a danger to their children’s health? In 2004, a mentally disabled young woman in Utah was charged by prosecutors with murder after she declined to have a Caesarian section and subsequently d...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Families, Law, and Society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction to Risk and Children’s Health
- 1. Are Mothers Hazardous to Their Children’s Health?
- 2. The Social, Psychological, and Legal Construction of Risk
- 3. How Healthy Are America’s Children?
- Part II. Mothers as Vectors of Risk
- 4. Conceptions of Risk:
- 5. Drug Use by Pregnant Women
- 6. Caught in the Crossfire
- 7. The “Good Mother” and Crimes of Omission
- Part III. Environmental Hazards to Children
- 8. Childhood Lead Poisoning and Other People’s Children
- 9. The Vaccination Paradox
- Part IV. A New Framework for Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
- 10. Moving beyond Blame
- Appendix. Criminal Prosecutions of Parents Based on a Failure to Act
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author