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Controlling Pregnancy: Fred Lyman Adair and the Influence of Eugenics on the Development of Prenatal Care
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Controlling Pregnancy: Fred Lyman Adair and the Influence of Eugenics on the Development of Prenatal Care. |
| 개인저자 | Hsiao, Florence. |
| 단체저자명 | Yale University. Yale School of Medicine. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Yale University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 67 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-03B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781085618175 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (M.D.)--Yale University, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: B.
Advisor: Rogers, Naomi. |
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| 요약 | This thesis examines the development of prenatal care in the United States in the early 1900s by focusing on the life and career of Fred Lyman Adair who, as an obstetrician and eugenicist, played a significant role in shaping prenatal care into what it is today. Although prenatal care was a product of infant welfare activists and public health officials, obstetricians like Adair who struggled to establish obstetrics as a legitimate specialty, saw an opportunity in prenatal care to pathologize pregnancy and elevate their specialty. Adair, therefore, became one of the foremost champions of prenatal care, and helped to standardize prenatal care as a physician-centric service through his influence on medical education and public policy, thereby increasing medical control over pregnancy. However, an analysis of Adair's professional writings demonstrated that, for Adair, medical control of pregnancy served a larger eugenic purpose. Eugenic notions of "race betterment" and prevention of "race suicide" for white Americans permeated his writings and motivated his vision for prenatal care as a eugenic tool. Historians have often cited eugenic control of reproduction as a cause of racial disparity in reproductive health today. Similarly, Adair's eugenic vision of prenatal care perhaps had long-lasting consequences and may help explain why present-day maternal and infant mortality rates of African Americans exceed that of white Americans by two to three times. |
| 일반주제명 | History. Medicine. Obstetrics. Public health. Health sciences. Womens studies. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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