Rest uneasy : sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America / Brittany Cowgill.

By:

Cowgill, Brittany, 1986- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 236 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813588223
0813588227
9780813588216
0813588219

Other title:

Sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rest uneasy.DDC classification:

618.92/026 23

LOC classification:

RJ320.S93 C69 2018

NLM classification:

WS 430

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Contents:

"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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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