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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Authors’ Note on Word Choice
Introduction
Part I: How We Got Here
Chapter One: There Are No Words: The Inadequacy of the Language for Pregnancy Loss
Chapter Two: How to Make an American Baby: The Modern Resonance of Reproduction in Earlier Eras
Chapter Three: Hey, We Might Actually Survive This: Medical and Social Advances in Pregnancy
Chapter Four: Modern Miscarriage: How Birth Control, “Choice,” and Home Pregnancy Tests Transformed Pregnancy Loss
Chapter Five: The Puppetry of the Fetus: How Images of the Unborn Redefined Abortion and Miscarriage
Part II: Sick Mothers
Chapter Six: Medical Mystery: Scientific Uncertainty That Comes from Ignoring the Right Questions
Chapter Seven: Nothing about This Is Simple: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Other Complications
Chapter Eight: Sick and Dying: How Discrimination Creates Circumstances for Pregnancy Loss
Part III: The Legal Morass
Chapter Nine: How Birthing Bodies Are Regulated: The Laws That Increasingly Govern Pregnancy
Chapter Ten: Politicians, Restrictions, and Laws, Oh My!: The Mess When We Mix Politics and Medicine
Chapter Eleven: When Pregnancy Loss Is a Crime: The Legal Peril around the Loss of a Baby
Chapter Twelve: Life and Death Certificates: How a Piece of Paper Came to Define Loss
Part IV: The Making of Meaning
Chapter Thirteen: The Stories We Tell: Myths and Narratives around Pregnancy and Loss
Chapter Fourteen: Talismans: The Growing Market for Objects That Commemorate Loss
Chapter Fifteen: Mourning Rituals: Muddling through a Way to Grieve
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Did You Seriously Just Say That to Me?
Recommended Media
Notes
Index
About the Authors
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