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Rickets, Race and Reproduction - Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth
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Rickets, Race and Reproduction - Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth
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This book outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly
associated with childhood, and studies its association with race
and its long-reaching effects on childbirth. For centuries, the
condition was recognized but poorly understood. For females,
rickets could pose a double jeopardy: suffering in childhood and
severe danger in adulthood when giving birth. The disease could
result in a contracted pelvis that obstructs the birth canal.
Medical researchers were faced with two distinct challenges:
unravelling the aetiology of rickets and ensuring the safety of
women giving birth. Solving the riddle of rickets proved especially
difficult. Thought variously to be a disease of industrial cities
and children of the poor, grounded in lack of exercise or sunlight,
or the product racial difference, the condition defied analysis
until the discovery of vitamin D early in the 20th century. The
dangers of rickets radically diminished. Medical intervention in
childbirth continued, and birth increasingly shifted from the home
to the hospital. Medical practitioners justified intervention by
emphasizing the dangers of pelvic disproportion, continually
enlarging the definition to gain full control of birth. Often
conditioned by racial assumptions, surgical experimentation
promoted common use of anaesthesia and a radical increase in
caesarean sections, and birth became a colder, more clinical
experience.
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