Dangerous Motherhood - Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

"Dangerous Motherhood" is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks, rather than being bound to ideas that women as a whole were likely to be vulnerable to mental illness. The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household and turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous, mad women, was magnified by its occurrence at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	H. Marland
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	303
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-2038-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > Materno-fetal medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-4039-2038-9
Barcode:	9781403920386

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