Abortion and its Multiple Contexts

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Video Lecture Presented by:

Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Lecture can be viewed with subtitles in Spanish or French. French translation was made possible by the Safe Abortion Action Fund and International Planned Parenthood Federation. Click the Closed Captions button on video lectures to access subtitles. 

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Weir L. Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject. USA and Canada: Taylor & Francis e-library; 2006.

Abortion and its Multiple Contexts Slide Set

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Slide Set from Video Lecture Presented by:

Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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