In this Book
University of California Press
- The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
A healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy even begins. Public health messages promote pre-pregnancy health and health care by encouraging reproductive-age women to think of themselves as mothers before they think of themselves as women. This happens despite little evidence that such an approach improves maternal and child health. This book examines the dramatic shift in ideas about reproductive risk and birth outcomes over the last several decades, unearthing how these ideas intersect with the politics of women’s health and motherhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780520963115
Related ISBN(s)
9780520288065
MARC Record
OCLC
978295598
Pages
292
Launched on MUSE
2017-10-20
Language
English
Open Access
No