Rest Uneasy : Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-­Century America /

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. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and c...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cowgill, Brittany, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sudden infant death syndrome > Prevention.
Sudden infant death syndrome.
Infants > Mortality.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Nourrissons > Mortalite > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mort subite chez le nourrisson.
Sudden Infant Death
Sudden Infant Death > prevention & control
Infant Mortality > history
Risk Reduction Behavior
History, 20th Century
Sudden Infant Death > etiology
Infants > Mortality > United States > History.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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
  • Conclusion : "the disease of theories" : discovering SIDS.

Ejemplares similares