Title:
Lost : miscarriage in nineteenth-century America / Shannon Withycombe.
Author:
Withycombe, Shannon, author.
Publication Information:
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
©2019
Call Number:
RG648 .W58 2019
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ISBN:
9780813591544
9780813591537
Series:
Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Physical Description:
vii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
Oh joy, oh rapture : describing the nineteenth-century miscarriage -- Enveloped in mystery : pregnancy and miscarriage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Before its due time : setting standards in miscarriage, 1830-1860s -- Dr. Taylor went up in the uterus : miscarriage treatment and intrusive interventions, 1860-1900 -- The body in the clot : medical interest in miscarried tissues, 1870-1912.
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