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Article: Reproduction: are women mad to try it?(Book Review)
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- Conscience
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- March 22, 2004
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Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain Ellie Lee (Aldine De Gruyter, 2003, 293pp) ISBN: 020230681X, $25.95
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN women's reproductive systems and their mental health is an old one. The ancient Greeks considered that hysteria was connected with the womb. In 1922, the UK Parliament passed the Infanticide Act, Section I of which provided that a woman who willfully caused the death of her child under the age of 12 months should only be guilty of manslaughter (and not the graver charge of murder, which carried the death penalty), if "at the time of the act or omission the balance of ...