TY - BOOK AU - Kukla,Rebecca TI - Mass hysteria: medicine, culture, and mothers' bodies T2 - Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities SN - 9781461640011 AV - HQ1206 .K785 2005 U1 - 618.2 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Pregnancy KW - Psychological aspects KW - Pregnant women KW - Europe KW - History KW - North America KW - Medical care KW - Mothers KW - Pregnant Women KW - History, Modern 1601- KW - Maternal-Fetal Relations KW - ethnology KW - Reproductive Behavior KW - history KW - Women's Health KW - Grossesse KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Femmes enceintes KW - Histoire KW - Amérique du Nord KW - Soins médicaux KW - Médecine KW - 1500- KW - Mères KW - pregnancy KW - aat KW - mothers KW - MEDICAL KW - Gynecology & Obstetrics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index; Impressionable bodies -- Imbibing the love of the fatherland -- Splitting the maternal body -- The uterus as public theater -- Separation anxiety -- Intimacy, vulnerability, and the politics of discomfort -- Fixing the boundaries of mothers' bodies; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=633377 ER -