Rest Uneasy

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America

Brittany Cowgill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8820-9 (ISBN)

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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.

BRITTANY COWGILL has a PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.

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

Conclusion: “The Disease of Theories”: Discovering SIDS

Acknowledgments

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Fachpflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-8135-8820-0 / 0813588200
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8820-9 / 9780813588209
Zustand	Neuware