Rest uneasy : sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America
Infants Sudden infant death syndrome Sudden Infant Death History, 20th Century Infant Mortality Risk Reduction Behavior e-böcker History
Rutgers University Press
2018
EISBN 9780813588216
"Deaths of infants in bed" : the historical origins of SIDS.
Cause of death : SIDS.
The theory of the month club : conducting research on SIDS.
Risky babies.
Mobilization : SIDS activism.
Cause for alarm.
Sleep like a baby.
Conclusion : "the disease of theories" : discovering SIDS.
Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
Cause of death : SIDS.
The theory of the month club : conducting research on SIDS.
Risky babies.
Mobilization : SIDS activism.
Cause for alarm.
Sleep like a baby.
Conclusion : "the disease of theories" : discovering SIDS.
Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
