@article{4995070ea86944dab98f369bbe2c02bc,
title = "{"}About to meet her maker{"}: Women, doctors, dying declarations, and the state's investigation of abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940",
author = "Reagan, {Leslie J.}",
note = "Funding Information: leslie]. Reagan is finishing her Ph.D. in history at the University ofWisconsin, Madison, and is an American legal History Fellow at the Institute for legal Studies, University ofWisconsin, Madison, Law School. This essay received the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for 1990. She would like to thank her advisers, ProfessorsJudith Walzer leavitt, Hendrik Hartog, and Linda Gordon, as well as Daniel Schneider, leslie Schwalm, Kathy Brown, Joyce Follet, Sue Hirsch, Joanne Meyerowitz, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, History Dissertators' Group, and theJournats reviewers, for their help and comments on earlier drafts of this paper. She gives special thanks to Dirk Hartog for encouraging her to submit the essay. An earlier version was first presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians at St. Louis in April 1989. The research and writing of this essay were supported, in part, by the Maurice Richardson Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Medical School, and by an American Bar Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the Study of Law and Society.",
year = "1991",
month = mar,
doi = "10.2307/2078261",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "77",
pages = "1240--1264",
journal = "Journal of American History",
issn = "0021-8723",
publisher = "Organization of American Historians",
number = "4",
}