A cultural history of pregnancy : pregnancy, medicine and culture, 1750-2000
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A cultural history of pregnancy : pregnancy, medicine and culture, 1750-2000
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and foetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.
Table of Contents
Introduction Advice to the Fair Sex Moral Physiology Mothering the Race Mass Production Reproductive Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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