Shannon Withycombe

Lost

Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. What emerges from Withycombe’s work is unlike most medicalization narratives. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780813591544
• ISBN-10: 0813591546
• Artikelnr.: 51514552

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