Losing Sleep : Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety /

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New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety. New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of "co-sleeping, " or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Laura, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sleeping customs.
Maternal and infant welfare.
Infants > Sleep.
Infants > Mortality.
Infants > Care.
Discrimination in medical care.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Maternal and infant welfare > United States.
Infants > Mortality > United States.
Sleeping customs > United States.
Infants > Care > United States.
Infants > Sleep > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Sleep Like a Baby" and Other Historical Fallacies
  • Making and Unmaking a Safe Sleep Environment: From the AAP to the Rock 'n Play Recall
  • What's Best for Baby? Co-Sleeping and the Politics of Inequality
  • "Everybody Loses": Parents as Perpetrators
  • Advertising Infant Safety: Gender, Risk, and the Good Parent
  • Conclusion: Rethinking the Safe Sleep Environment.

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