Mass Hysteria (eBook)

Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

Rebecca Kukla (Autor)

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2005
264 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4616-4001-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.

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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.

Autor

Rebecca Kukla is an associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, as well as an affiliated associate professor at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. From 2003-2005, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (2006), as well as the author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 FiguresPart 3 Part OnePart 4 Introduction - Impressionable BodiesChapter 5 A "Private Looking-Glasse"Chapter 6 Permeable and Perambulating WombsChapter 7 The Maternal ImaginationChapter 8 Governing and Ordering Maternal BodiesChapter 9 Preserving NaturePart 10 Imbibing the Love of the FatherlandChapter 11 "Begin with Mothers"Chapter 12 Nature, Contingency and FreedomChapter 13 Imbibing the Love of the FatherlandChapter 14 The Meaning of Milk in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesChapter 15 Literal and Figurative Lactating BodiesChapter 16 First and Second NaturePart 17 Splitting the Maternal BodyChapter 18 Rousseau's Hysterical DiagnosisChapter 19 Monitoring and Mapping Maternal SpaceChapter 20 "The Truth Was Thereby Well Authenticated"Chapter 21 The Fetish Mother and the Unruly MotherChapter 22 Dissecting MonstersChapter 23 Bodies Bordering on the PathologicalPart 24 Part TwoPart 25 The Uterus as Public TheaterChapter 26 Setting the StageChapter 27 The "Sonographic Voyeur" and the Rituals of Fetal RecognitionChapter 28 The "What To Expect Pregnancy Universe"Chapter 29 Transparency, Anonymity and Maternal IdentityChapter 30 Civic Responsibility, Maternal Agency, and the Technic of PregnancyChapter 31 Maternal Duties, and the Constitutive Power of IdeologyPart 32 Separation AnxietyChapter 33 Principles of ProximityChapter 34 Monstrous SeparationsChapter 35 Embodied MotheringChapter 36 Denaturing the BreastChapter 37 The Myth of the Infinitely Bountiful Breast and its Magic MilkChapter 38 The Lactating Body as Scientific ObjectChapter 39 The Reemergence of the Unruly MotherChapter 40 Ideology and the Constitution of DesireChapter 41 Mother-Love and the Politics of ProximityPart 42 Intimacy, Vulnerability, and the Politics of DiscomfortChapter 43 Who Wouldn't Want to Breastfeed?Chapter 44 Private PlacesChapter 45 Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Maternal SexualityChapter 46 Making SpacePart 47 Fixing the Boundaries of Mothers' BodiesChapter 48 The Dark But Firm Web of ExperienceChapter 49 Decentered Mothers - Unfixed BoundariesChapter 50 Solidifying the Maternal Self

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-4001-6 / 1461640016
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-4001-1 / 9781461640011