Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies by Kukla, Rebecca

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742533578)

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Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies by Kukla, Rebecca

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

$150.00
Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies by Kukla, Rebecca

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Rebecca Kukla
ISBN-10: 0742533573
ISBN-13: 9780742533578
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Rebecca Kukla
By Rebecca Kukla
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Rebecca Kukla is an associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, as well as an affiliated associate professor at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. From 2003-2005, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (2006), as well as the author of numerous articles and book chapters.

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