Shannon Withycombe

Lost

Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Shannon Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813591537
• ISBN-10: 0813591538
• Artikelnr.: 51486266

Autorenporträt

SHANNON WITHYCOMBE is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture: Describing the Nineteenth-Century Miscarriage 13
2. Enveloped in Mystery: Pregnancy and Miscarriage in the Late Eighteenth
and Early Nineteenth Centuries 42
3. Before Its Due Time: Setting Standards in Miscarriage, 1830–1860s 59
4. Dr. Taylor Went Up in the Uterus: Miscarriage Treatment and Intrusive
Interventions, 1860–1900 93
5. The Body in the Clot: Medical Interest in Miscarried Tissues, 1870–1912
125
Conclusion 162
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 177
Index