| Contents |
Introduction: priorities and agendas in communicating about women's reproductive health / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit -- Medical and psychological consequences of legal abortion in the United States / Diane Helene Miller -- Matter of consequence: abortion rhetoric and media messages / Diane Helene Miller -- Illicit drug use and the pregnant woman: prevalence, social impact, effects, and legislative action / Robert Lemieux -- Drama of in utero drug exposure: fetus takes first billing / Kimberly N. Kline. |
| Contents |
Contraception and clinical science: the place of women in reproductive technology / Susan A. Owen and Sally A. Caudill -- Our bodies, our risk: dilemmas in contraceptive information / Martha Solomon Watson, Mary Anne Trasciatti, and Cynthia P. King -- American experience of childbirth:P toward a range of safe choices / Elizabeth Jean Nelson -- Contemporary birthing practices: technology over humanity? / Helen M. Sterk -- Women and smoking: consequences and solutions / Michael Pfau, Margot L. Nelson, and Mary Moster -- Tuggging at pregnant consumers: competing "smoke!" "Don't smoke!" Media messages and their messengers / Deirdre M. Condit. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95032514 |
| ISBN | 076190056X (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0761900578 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
