In sickness and in health. Expert discussions on abortion indications, risks and patient-doctor relationships in post-war Poland

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dc.contributor.authorIgnaciuk, Agata
dc.contributor.organizationInstytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, Uniwersytet Warszawskien
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-11T14:17:16Z
dc.date.available2020-09-11T14:17:16Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-10
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses expert debates relating to abortion in Poland between 1956 and 1993, a period when the procedure was legal and accessible. Through the pages of the primary Polish journal for gynecology and obstetrics, Ginekologia Polska, I trace continuities and ruptures around three major intersecting themes: the procedure’s indications, its (dis)connection to health, and the patient-doctor relationship. The journal became a forum showcasing interpretative tensions over indications for abortion and the malleability of the categories “therapeutic” and “social”. In addition to these tensions, abortion was represented throughout this period as a potentially risky surgery, although this was initially nuanced with parallel representations of legal abortion combating maternal mortality. During the 1970s, abortion began to be linked to infertility, often in simplistic cause-and-effect terms. Simultaneously, opposition to abortion based on the idea of defense of the nation and fetal “life”, surfaced in expert discourse.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by a National Science Centre (Poland) Polonez grant (ref. 2016/21/P/HS3/04080 and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement no. 665778. Copy-editing was partially funded by the University of Granada.
dc.identifier.citationIgnaciuk, A. (2021). In Sickness and in Health: Expert Discussions on Abortion Indications, Risks, and Patient-Doctor Relationships in Postwar Poland. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 95, 112 - 83.en
dc.identifier.issn1086-3176
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/18775
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicineen
dc.relation2016/21/P/HS3/04080en
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dc.subjectstate-socialist Polanden
dc.subjecthistory of gynecologyen
dc.subjectabortion indicationsen
dc.subjectabortion risksen
dc.subjecthistory of reproductive healthen
dc.titleIn sickness and in health. Expert discussions on abortion indications, risks and patient-doctor relationships in post-war Polanden
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