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Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

Contributor(s): Kukla, Rebecca (Author)

ISBN: 9780742533578

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Pub Date: October 1, 2005

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2005012497

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.75" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.23 lbs) 264 pages

Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities

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Description: 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 h...

Review Quotes: Kukla advances feminist thinking about maternity and breastfeeding...Highly recommended.

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