Mass Hysteria - Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Paperback)

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	October 2005
Authors:	Rebecca Kukla
Dimensions:	208 x 195 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-3358-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	0-7425-3358-1
Barcode:	9780742533585

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