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

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.
Subject:	Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects. Pregnant women -- Europe -- History. Pregnant women -- North America. Pregnant women -- Medical care. Pregnancy. Pregnant Women. History, Modern 1601-. Maternal-Fetal Relations -- ethnology. Mothers. Reproductive Behavior -- history. Women's Health -- history. Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects. Pregnant women. Pregnant women -- Medical care. Europe. North America. History.
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. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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

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Summary:	In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
ISBN:	9781461640011 1461640016 1299795773 9781299795778 0742533573 9780742533578 0742533581 9780742533585