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Losing Sleep - Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety (Hardcover)
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Losing Sleep - Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety (Hardcover)
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New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety New parents
are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of "co-sleeping,"
or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website
forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing
Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep
safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties
of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors,
public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our
panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep
standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents,
rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of
housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for
infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates
differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet,
while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and
structural causes, the discourse around infant sleep safety often
suggests that individual parents can protect their children from
these tragic outcomes, if only they would make the right choices
about safe sleep. Harrison argues that our understanding of
sleep-related infant death, and the crisis of infant mortality in
general, has burdened parents, especially parents of color, in
increasingly punitive ways. As the government takes a more visible
role in criminalizing parents, including those whose children die
in their sleep, this book provides much-needed insight into a new
era of parenthood.
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