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Giving Up Baby: Safe Haven Laws, Motherhood, and Reproductive Justice
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Product Description: “Baby safe haven” laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location—such as a hospital or fire station—were established in every state between 1999 and 2009...read more
By Laury Oaks
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9781479897926 | New York Univ Pr, June 5, 2015, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: “Baby safe haven” laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location—such as a hospital or fire station—were established in every state between 1999 and 2009.

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9781479806362 | New York Univ Pr, June 5, 2015, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: “Baby safe haven” laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location—such as a hospital or fire station—were established in every state between 1999 and 2009.

Risk, Culture, And Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions Of Danger And Blame
Product Description: Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk...read more
By Barbara Herr Harthorn (editor) and Laury Oaks (editor)
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9780313039201 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 2003, cover price $74.75 | About this edition: Explores the way risk, as it is socially and culturally constructed, both produces and makes more visible health inequalities.
9780275978693 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 2003, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales.
9781223007267 | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 2003, cover price $74.75 | About this edition: Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales.

Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection
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Product Description: The 1966 edition of the leading medical textbook states that pregnant women can safely smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day. Yet today, women who smoke during pregnancy are among the most vilified figures in public health campaigns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Laury Oaks
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9780813528878 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: The 1966 edition of the medical textbook states that pregnant women can safely smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day.

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9780813528885 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The 1966 edition of the leading medical textbook states that pregnant women can safely smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day.

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