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Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women´s Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn
Robert A. Blank
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Description for Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women´s Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn
Hardback. A survey of the controversial issue of foetal protection policy in the workplace. The author argues for a practical strategy which will maximize women's employment choices and reproductive health while keeping foetal risk and harm to a minimum. Num Pages: 225 pages, 4 photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
This thoughtful book grapples with the contentious issue of fetal protection policy in the workplace, contrasting the right of the mother to control her life against the right of the fetus to occupy a risk-free environment. By describing the history of sex discrimination in the American workplace and examining current research on workplace dangers to reproductive health, Blank critically assesses fetal protection policies established by corporations in the last two decades. After explaining the U.S. government's response--both regulatory and judicial--Blank concludes that current means of redress for fetal injuries in the workplace are woefully inadequate. Blank argues for ... Read more
This thoughtful book grapples with the contentious issue of fetal protection policy in the workplace, contrasting the right of the mother to control her life against the right of the fetus to occupy a risk-free environment. By describing the history of sex discrimination in the American workplace and examining current research on workplace dangers to reproductive health, Blank critically assesses fetal protection policies established by corporations in the last two decades. After explaining the U.S. government's response--both regulatory and judicial--Blank concludes that current means of redress for fetal injuries in the workplace are woefully inadequate. Blank argues for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231076944
SKU
V9780231076944
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Ref
99-1
About Robert A. Blank
Robert Blank is Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of Rationing Medicine, Regulating Reproduction, and coeditor of Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, volumes 1 and 2, all published by Columbia University Press.
Reviews for Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women´s Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn
Blank does an admirable job balancing the rights of women with the necessity of providing adequate protection for the unborn from legitimate workplace hazards. Particularly impressive is the compilation of medical and legal data along with the analysis of fetal protection policy to this point in America. While the range of solutions suggested... are sure to spur debate, they present ... Read more