Bishops and Bodies

Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals

Lori Freedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2886-5 (ISBN)

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Four out of the ten largest U.S. health care systems follow the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbid abortion, sterilization, and related treatments in their hospitals. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, Bishops and Bodies shows how these opaque restrictions conflict with medical standards, producing unjust and unequal reproductive care.

Winner of the 2024 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association's Section on Medical Sociology

One out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.

LORI FREEDMAN is a sociologist, bioethicist, and professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care. DEBRA STULBERG is a professor and department chair of family medicine at the University of Chicago.

Foreword by Debra Stulberg
Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal
Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis
1          Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded
2          Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards
3          Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice
4          Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering
5          Mostly Above-Board Workarounds
6          Under the Radar Workarounds
7          Separation of Church and Hospital
8          Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Vorwort	Debra Stulberg
Zusatzinfo	1 color illus.
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	50 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2886-1 / 1978828861
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2886-5 / 9781978828865
Zustand	Neuware