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“This powerfully analytic, insight-provoking account . . . gives us intimate access to what he terms the ‘haunting ambivalence’ with which these physicians think and feel about the procedure of abortion. Imber brilliantly shows the empirical and symbolic relationship between this particular ‘doctor’s dilemma,’ and the current state of the ‘cultural legacy’ of the medical profession and the larger society of which it is a part.” —Renée C. Fox, University of Pennsylvania

-This powerfully analytic, insight-provoking account . . . gives us intimate access to what he terms the 'haunting ambivalence' with which these physicians think and feel about the procedure of abortion. Imber brilliantly shows the empirical and symbolic relationship between this particular 'doctor's dilemma, ' and the current state of the 'cultural legacy' of the medical profession and the larger society of which it is a part.- --RenEe C. Fox, University of Pennsylvania

This powerfully analytic, insight-provoking account . . . gives us intimate access to what he terms the 'haunting ambivalence' with which these physicians think and feel about the procedure of abortion. Imber brilliantly shows the empirical and symbolic relationship between this particular 'doctor's dilemma, ' and the current state of the 'cultural legacy' of the medical profession and the larger society of which it is a part. </p> --RenEe C. Fox, University of Pennsylvania</p>

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Jonathan B. Imber is Jean Glasscock Professor of sociology at Wellesley College. He is the author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine and Trusting Doctors. He serves as editor-in-chief of Society.

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