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Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
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by Brittany CowgillBrittany Cowgill
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Overview
Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. American medicine reinterpreted and reconceived of the problem of sudden infant death multiple times over the course of the twentieth century. Its various approaches linked sudden infant deaths to all kinds of different causes—biological, anatomical, environmental, and social. In the context of a nation increasingly skeptical, yet increasingly expectant, of medicine, Americans struggled to cope with the paradoxes of sudden infant death; they worked to admit their powerlessness to prevent SIDS even while they tried to overcome it. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS, illuminating how and why SIDS has continued to cast a shadow over doctors and parents.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813588193 |
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Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Publication date: | 05/07/2018 |
Series: | Rutgers Series in Critical Issues in Health and Medicine |
Pages: | 250 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
BRITTANY COWGILL has a PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
Table of Contents
Introduction
- “Deaths of Infants in Bed”: The Historical Origins of SIDS
- Cause of Death: SIDS
- The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS
- Risky Babies
- Mobilization: SIDS Activism
- Cause for Alarm
- Sleep Like a Baby
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