I'm sorry for my loss An urgent examination of reproductive care in America
Book - 2024
"Rebecca Little and Colleen Long are journalists and childhood friends who both experienced pregnancy losses past 20 weeks. In the days, weeks, and months that followed, they searched desperately for information to help them process what they had been through. But they found nothing. So, Rebecca and Colleen began to research. Diving deep into the history, culture, and science around pregnancy loss, they discovered that the helplessness and loneliness they felt was not a coincidence. Over the past several decades, American culture has been placing more and more emphasis on the rights and life of the fetus-at the cost and well-being of the mother. Politics, history, racism, misogyny, capitalism, and medicine have been working separately ...and together to choke off grief related to pregnancy loss. In their first book, I'm Sorry for My Loss, Rebecca and Colleen weave together deep research into laws, pop culture, medicine, and history with powerful personal narratives to offer readers a comprehensive sociological look at how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and what a system of more compassionate care could and should look like"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Personal Narrative
Informational works
Instructional and educational works
Personal narratives
Documents d'information
Matériel d'éducation et de formation
Récits personnels - Published
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Naperville, Illinois :
Sourcebooks
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- pages cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781728292755
9781728292786
- There are no words : the inadequacy of the language for pregnancy loss
- How to make an American baby : the modern resonance of reproduction in earlier eras
- Hey, we might actually survive this : medical and social advances in pregnancy
- Modern miscarriage : how birth control, "choice," and home pregnancy tests transformed pregnancy loss
- The puppetry of the fetus : how images of the unborn redefined abortion and miscarriage
- Medical mystery : scientific uncertainty that comes from ignoring the right questions
- Nothing about this is simple : miscarriage, stillbirth, and other complications
- Sick and dying : how discrimination creates circumstances for pregnancy loss
- How birthing bodies are regulated : the laws that increasingly govern pregnancy
- Politicians, restrictions and laws, oh my! : the mess when we mix politics and medicine
- When pregnancy loss is a crime : the legal peril around the loss of a baby
- Life and death certificates : how a piece of paper came to define loss
- The stories we tell : myths and narratives around pregnancy and loss
- Talismans : the growing market for objects that commemorate pregnancy loss
- Mourning rituals : muddling through a way to grieve.