Lost : miscarriage in nineteenth-century America /

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Author / Creator:	Withycombe, Shannon, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 220 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in health and medicine Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subject:	Miscarriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Miscarriage -- United States -- Psychological aspects. Obstetricians -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Abortion, Spontaneous -- psychology. Abortion, Spontaneous -- history. History, 19th Century. Fetal Research -- history. Pregnancy -- psychology. Miscarriage. Miscarriage -- Psychological aspects. Obstetricians. United States. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12399385

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ISBN:	0813591570 9780813591575 9780813591544 0813591546 9780813591537 0813591538 9780813591551
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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. Withycombe's pathbreaking research reveals how Americans construed, and continue to understand, miscarriage within a context of reproductive desires, expectations, and abilities. This is 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 Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
Other form:	Print version: Withycombe, Shannon. Lost. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] 9780813591544

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