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ISBN: 9780522878400
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2023
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
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In the insightful work "Abortion Care is Health Care," author Barbara Baird delves deep into the dynamic history of medical abortion provision in Australia since 1990. This essential read offers a critical exploration of the numerous challenges faced by individuals seeking abortion care in a landscape often dominated by barriers imposed by both public and private sectors. With a focus on the struggles of marginalized communities, Baird highlights how factors such as poverty, rural isolation, racism, and a lack of Medicare entitlement have historically obstructed access to essential reproductive health services.
This book chronicles the long fight for medical abortion access, particularly after the nationwide decriminalization of abortion in 2002. Readers will meet the dedicated 'champions'—healthcare workers, activists, and everyday citizens—who have tirelessly worked to ensure women have a choice, often stepping in where governmental and medical institutions have faltered.
Through detailed oral histories with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, and community activists, Baird presents a rich tapestry of personal experiences and feminist analysis. "Abortion Care is Health Care" is not just a historical document but a call to action, compelling readers to understand that reproductive rights are integral to women's health.
Delivery information: Orders are shipped promptly, ensuring you receive your copy of this critical work on abortion care without delay. Enjoy fast and reliable delivery with tracking included.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780522878400
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2023
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Description:
A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them.
In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has imposed barriers to access on women already marginalised by poverty, rural and remote residency, lack of Medicare entitlement, racism and other factors. Tracing changes in the private sector, the long struggle to make medical abortion available and the nationwide decriminalisation of abortion since 2002, Baird introduces readers to the large cast of 'champions' and everyday healthcare workers and activists who have persisted in their commitment to make abortion care available when governments and the medical profession have so often failed.
Drawing on oral history interviews conducted nationwide with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, counsellors and managers, women's health workers, academics and community activists, Baird brings a critical feminist analysis to create a sophisticated historical narrative of abortion provision over the last thirty years.
ISBN: 9780522878400
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2023
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Description:
In the insightful work "Abortion Care is Health Care," author Barbara Baird delves deep into the dynamic history of medical abortion provision in Australia since 1990. This essential read offers a critical exploration of the numerous challenges faced by individuals seeking abortion care in a landscape often dominated by barriers imposed by both public and private sectors. With a focus on the struggles of marginalized communities, Baird highlights how factors such as poverty, rural isolation, racism, and a lack of Medicare entitlement have historically obstructed access to essential reproductive health services.
This book chronicles the long fight for medical abortion access, particularly after the nationwide decriminalization of abortion in 2002. Readers will meet the dedicated 'champions'—healthcare workers, activists, and everyday citizens—who have tirelessly worked to ensure women have a choice, often stepping in where governmental and medical institutions have faltered.
Through detailed oral histories with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, and community activists, Baird presents a rich tapestry of personal experiences and feminist analysis. "Abortion Care is Health Care" is not just a historical document but a call to action, compelling readers to understand that reproductive rights are integral to women's health.
Delivery information: Orders are shipped promptly, ensuring you receive your copy of this critical work on abortion care without delay. Enjoy fast and reliable delivery with tracking included.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780522878400
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2023
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Description:
A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them.
In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has imposed barriers to access on women already marginalised by poverty, rural and remote residency, lack of Medicare entitlement, racism and other factors. Tracing changes in the private sector, the long struggle to make medical abortion available and the nationwide decriminalisation of abortion since 2002, Baird introduces readers to the large cast of 'champions' and everyday healthcare workers and activists who have persisted in their commitment to make abortion care available when governments and the medical profession have so often failed.
Drawing on oral history interviews conducted nationwide with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, counsellors and managers, women's health workers, academics and community activists, Baird brings a critical feminist analysis to create a sophisticated historical narrative of abortion provision over the last thirty years.