‘a disastrous blow’: psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war britain

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Sarah Crook ‍ ‍ and collaborators from the Department of History, UK have published the Article: ‘A disastrous blow’: psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 27/04/1968
• what: This article has argued that abortion reform in the late 1960s supported a broader understanding of the interaction between the social and the medical domains in the medical imagination and that metrics of risk were critical to this.

SUMMARY

Four years before the Abortion Act 1967, psychiatrist Myre Sim declared . . .

 



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