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Lost : miscarriage in nineteenth-century America / Shannon Withycombe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Withycombe, Shannon, author.
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miscarriage--United States--History--19th century.
- Miscarriage.
- Miscarriage--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Obstetricians--United States--History--19th century.
- Obstetricians.
- Abortion, Spontaneous--history.
- Abortion, Spontaneous--psychology.
- Pregnancy--psychology.
- Fetal Research--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Abortion, Spontaneous--history.
- Abortion, Spontaneous--psychology.
- Pregnancy--psychology.
- Fetal Research--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Oh joy, oh rapture : describing the nineteenth-century miscarriage
- Enveloped in mystery : pregnancy and miscarriage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Before its due time : setting standards in miscarriage, 1830-1860s
- Dr. Taylor went up in the uterus : miscarriage treatment and intrusive interventions, 1860-1900
- The body in the clot : medical interest in miscarried tissues, 1870-1912.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813591544
- 0813591546
- 9780813591537
- 0813591538
- OCLC:
- 1055897259
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