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Overview2019 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shannon WithycombePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780813591544ISBN 10: 0813591546 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 05 October 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsShannon Withycombe has found wonderful, intimate stories about 19th-century women's pregnancies and the end of their pregnancies that can only be found through difficult, painstaking research in personal papers as well as the scientific and clinical thinking of physicians about miscarriage found in medical publications and hospital records. This is a unique book that brings together questions from both the history of science and the history of medicine and from the perspectives of both patients and practitioners. --Leslie Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lost is a delight to read. Withycombe provides smart readings of vivid and compelling stories, which she shares in graceful detail. Lost is well-researched, insightful, and compelling. --Lara Freidenfelds Princeton Research Forum Shannon Withycombe has found wonderful, intimate stories about 19th-century women's pregnancies and the end of their pregnancies that can only be found through difficult, painstaking research in personal papers as well as the scientific and clinical thinking of physicians about miscarriage found in medical publications and hospital records. This is a unique book that brings together questions from both the history of science and the history of medicine and from the perspectives of both patients and practitioners. --Leslie Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Chronicle of Higher Education 'new scholarly books' weekly book list, compiled by Nina C. Ayoub--Chronicle of Higher Education [Lost] shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women's views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today. --Slate This amazing book analyzes how women and physicians understood miscarriage in the 19th century, a time without early pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, or legal reproductive control. Withycombe spent years sifting through archives searching for women's conversations about pregnancy loss to gain an understanding of how women felt about their miscarriages. Lost is an important and timely book. --Johanna Schoen author of Abortion After Roe Lost is a delight to read. Withycombe provides smart readings of vivid and compelling stories, which she shares in graceful detail. Lost is well-researched, insightful, and compelling. --Lara Freidenfelds Princeton Research Forum Shannon Withycombe has found wonderful, intimate stories about 19th-century women's pregnancies and the end of their pregnancies that can only be found through difficult, painstaking research in personal papers as well as the scientific and clinical thinking of physicians about miscarriage found in medical publications and hospital records. This is a unique book that brings together questions from both the history of science and the history of medicine and from the perspectives of both patients and practitioners. --Leslie Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This amazing book analyzes how women and physicians understood miscarriage in the 19th century, a time without early pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, or legal reproductive control. Withycombe spent years sifting through archives searching for women's conversations about pregnancy loss to gain an understanding of how women felt about their miscarriages. Lost is an important and timely book. --Johanna Schoen author of Abortion After Roe Lost is a delight to read. Withycombe provides smart readings of vivid and compelling stories, which she shares in graceful detail. Lost is well-researched, insightful, and compelling. --Lara Freidenfelds Princeton Research Forum Author InformationSHANNON WITHYCOMBE is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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