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One out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients' rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops' directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church's stance on sex, reproduction, and ""life"" itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.

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Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society. --Jessica Martucci author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America

Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about healthcare, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society. --Jessica Martucci author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America

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LORI FREEDMAN is a sociologist, bioethicist, and professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care. DEBRA STULBERG is a professor and department chair of family medicine at the University of Chicago.

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