Title Lost : miscarriage in nineteenth-century America / Shannon Withycombe

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages) Series Critical issues in health and medicine Critical issues in health and medicine. 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 Summary In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women's personal writings and doctors' publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. Withycombe's pathbreaking research reveals how Americans construed, and continue to understand, miscarriage within a context of reproductive desires, expectations, and abilities. This is the first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Miscarriage -- United States -- History -- 19th century Miscarriage -- United States -- Psychological aspects Obstetricians -- United States -- History -- 19th century Abortion, Spontaneous -- psychology Abortion, Spontaneous -- history History, 19th Century Fetal Research -- history Pregnancy -- psychology MEDICAL -- General. Miscarriage Miscarriage -- Psychological aspects Obstetricians United States United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0813591570 9780813591575

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