Abortion by Medical Profession
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Abortion, doctors and the law: some aspects of the legal regulation of abortion in England from 1803 to 1982
on its poisonous qualities than on the quantity consumed. The medical failure to provide "coherent" (p. 57) leadership in the lay campaign to curb alcoholic production and consumption is therefore understandable and casts doubt on Prestwich's own conclusion that "the appropriation of alcoholism by the medical profession" constituted "an important advance" in "the development of treatment and pr...
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