Sign of Pathology

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Struggling Through Life

Part 1

1. When Abortion Became a Political-Economic Problem

2. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Secrets of Life

Part 2

3. “White Man’s Plague”: Anti-Malthusian Memory Work at the Fin de Siècle

4. “More Wisdom in Living”: Neo-Malthusian Memory Work at Midcentury

5. “The Lesser of Threatened Evils”: Therapeutic Amnesias

Conclusion: Seeking Immunity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“If your primary scholarship is in abortion rhetorics or historic American medical rhetorics, then this text is an indispensable and invaluable contribution to your area. Similarly, for those interested in rhetorical genealogy and/or rhetorical historiography, broadly conceived, Signs of Pathology is an exemplar text in the genre.”

—S. Scott Graham, Rhetoric & Public Affairs