In this Book
- Rest Uneasy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Chapter 2: Cause of Death: SIDS
- pp. 29-53
- Chapter 4: Risky Babies
- pp. 72-91
- Chapter 5: Mobilization: SIDS Activism
- pp. 92-113
- Chapter 6: Cause for Alarm
- pp. 114-135
- Chapter 7: Sleep Like a Baby
- pp. 136-161
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 169-170
- About the Author
- pp. 237-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813588223
Related ISBN(s)
9780813588209, 9780813588216, 9780813597911
MARC Record
OCLC
986523726
Pages
250
Launched on MUSE
2018-04-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018