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| Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | In 1965, 71% of legal abortions in the United States were performed using the surgical procedure of dilation and curettage. By 1972, a mere seven years later, approximately the same percentage (72. 6%) of legal abortions in the United States were performed using a completely new abortion technology: the electrical vacuum aspirator. This article examines why, in less than a decade, electric vacuum suction became American physicians' abortion technology of choice. It focuses on factors such as political and professional feasibility (the technology was able to complement the decriminalization of abortion in the US, and the interests, abilities, commitments, and personal beliefs of physicians); clinical compatibility (it met physician/patient criteria such as safety, simplicity and effectiveness); and economic viability (it was able to adapt to market factors such as production, cost, supply/demand, availability, and distribution). |
| Rights: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.  |
| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: | Abortament per succió ; Aspirador de buit ; Tecnologies abortives ; Interrupció de l'embaràs ; Reconfiguració de tecnologies ; Aborto por succión ; Aspirador de vacio ; Tecnologías abortivas ; Interrupción del embarazo ; Re-configuración de tecnologías ; Vacuum suction abortion ; Vacuum aspirator ; Abortion technologies ; Pregnancy termination ; Technological reconfiguration |
| Published in: | Dynamis : Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque. Historiam Illustrandam, V. 28 (2008) p. 353-376, ISSN 2340-7948 |
