| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Nathan Stormer. Articulating Life's Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric about Abortion in the Nineteenth Century. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2002. Pp. xvi, 235. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.95.
Nathan Stormer's foray into the nineteenth century, looking in the rhetoric of medical practitioners for the origins of the modern-day debate over abortion in American society, is a worthy enterprise. He analyzes primary medical works so as to clarify their cultural impact and to show how they established a way to think about women's bodies locking in an inescapable dialectic of abortion and anti-abortion discourse. His contribution to historical scholarship is the use of rhetorical analysis. Interdisciplinary in format, chapters swing between predominant rhetorical examination of sources and stronger emphasis on a historical perspective. Rhetorical devices and terms such as hypomnesis, anamnesis, and mnemonesis serve as framework for this book.	1
In the nineteenth century, American medical practice experienced radical changes in the process of laying the foundation of modern medicine, shifting toward clinical and laboratory science-based medicine. Doctors engaged in a war with female midwives over the supervision of childbirth. Existing institutions of medical education simultaneously blocked women from admittance. Meanwhile, women's bodies increasingly became the subject of medical attention.	. . .

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