Mass hysteria : medicine, culture, and mothers' bodies /

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Author / Creator:Kukla, Rebecca, 1969-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403433
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ISBN:9781461640011
1461640016
1299795773
9781299795778
0742533573
9780742533578
0742533581
9780742533585
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
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Summary:Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.
Other form:Print version: Kukla, Rebecca, 1969- Mass hysteria. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005