Book
Stillbirth and the law
University of California Press
2025
Appears in Recent Books by UI Authors
Abstract
"Each year in the United States, about one in 170 births is a stillbirth, a rate that has remained stagnant for most of this century even as other high-income countries have dramatically reduced their already lower rates. Jill Wieber Lens, the nation's foremost expert on stillbirth and the law, blends personal experience and legal analysis to bring us an original, essential guide to this all-too-often unrecognized public health crisis. By exposing how the law shapes stillbirth, inhibits prevention, and fails those most affected, Lens argues for a series of pragmatic, data-driven changes to the legal landscape that enjoy broad popular support and strengthen reproductive justice and reproductive rights"--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stillbirth and the law
- Creators
- Jill Wieber Lens (Author)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Table of contents
- Introduction. Caleb -- Missing out on cause-of-death data -- Primitive data collection - Standards of care and malpractice -- Valuing stillborn babies -- Blindsiding parents -- Reproductive justice and stillbirth -- That first breath -- Abortion and stillbirth -- Stillbirth as a crime -- Conclusion. Genuine (and forced) optimism for the future.
- Publisher
- University of California Press; Oakland, California
- ISBN
- 9780520393578; 0520393570; 9780520393585; 0520393589
- Format
- ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Number of pages
- ix, 294 pages
- Alternative title
- Stillbirth & the law
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984802404702771
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