Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers’ Bodies

Name: Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies
SKU: INR-9780742533578
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SKU: INR-9780742533578 Category: All Books Tags: Pregnancy, Maternal-fetal Relations, History, Modern 1601-, Reproductive Behavior, Medical Care, North America, Women's Health, Ethnology, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Mothers, Pregnant Women, Europe, Health & Fitness, Ingram, History, Psychological Aspects

Description

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.

Author: Kukla, Rebecca

Topic: Family / Parenting / Childbirth
Media: Book
ISBN: 742533573
Language: English
Pages: 264