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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cowgill, Brittany, 1986- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 conquer SIDS.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (250 pages).
ISBN:9780813588223

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