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Increasingly, medical and public health recommendations urge all women of reproductive age to minimize health risks to future pregnancies even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Such advice is predicated on the belief that good pre-pregnancy care will ensure better birth outcomes in the United States. This pre-pregnancy model of health care effectively designates a “zero trimester” in which women are expected, before conception, to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction. Some health experts believe that pre-pregnancy care will solve many medical and social ills that were not addressed by the prenatal care model that dominated medical thinking in the twentieth century. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s bodies. In __The Zero Trimester,__ Miranda Waggoner traces the shifting boundaries of reproductive risk and maternal responsibility in America to understand how and why the task of perfecting pregnancies now encompasses the whole of a woman’s reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester arose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive po

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Author

Miranda R. Waggoner

Publisher

California : University of California press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520288065

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Health & Fitness