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Hilary Marland - Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain - 9781349514632 - V9781349514632
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Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

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Description for Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain Paperback. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JKSN; MMJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks, rather than being bound to ideas that women as a whole were likely to be vulnerable to mental illness. The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
403g
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349514632
SKU
V9781349514632
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Hilary Marland
HILARY MARLAND is Reader in History and Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She is former editor of Social History of Medicine, and has published widely on midwifery, infant and maternal welfare, Nineteenth-Century medical practice, and alternative healing. She is currently working on a study of women's health and advice book literature ... Read more

Reviews for Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain
'Dangerous Motherhood is a tour de force of scholarship, which exploits a wide range of little-tapped sources to bring the poignant case histories of manic and depressed women to life. Marland fastidiously delineates the ambivalent attempts of Victorian obstetricians, asylum doctors, and general practitioners, as well as of families and husbands, to understand, classify and respond to the often bizarre ... Read more

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