Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813591544)

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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.

Author: Shannon Withycombe
ISBN-10: 0813591546
ISBN-13: 9780813591544
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2018
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2019