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846191
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Cowgill, Brittany,1986-
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| Title & Author
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Rest uneasy : : sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America /\ Brittany Cowgill.
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :: Rutgers University Press,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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vii, 236 pages ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0813588197
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: 0813588200
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: 9780813588193
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: 9780813588209
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9780813588216
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9780813588223
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"Deaths of infants in bed" : the historical origins of SIDS -- Cause of death : SIDS -- The theory of the month club : conducting research on SIDS -- Risky babies -- Mobilization : SIDS activism -- Cause for alarm -- Sleep like a baby -- Conclusion : "the disease of theories" : discovering SIDS.
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Tracing the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. American medicine reinterpreted and reconceived the problem of sudden infant death multiple times over the course of the twentieth century. Its various approaches linked sudden infant deaths to all kinds of different causes--biological, anatomical, environmental, and social. In the context of a nation increasingly skeptical, yet increasingly expectant, of medicine, American struggled to cope with the paradoxes of sudden infant death; they worked to admit their powerlessness to prevent SIDS even while they tried to overcome it. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assess Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS, illuminating how and why SIDS has continued to cast a shodow over doctors and parents.
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Sudden infant death syndrome.
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Sudden infant death syndrome.
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Sudden Infant Death-- etiology.
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History, 20th Century.
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Infant Mortality-- history.
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Risk Reduction Behavior.
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Sudden Infant Death-- prevention control.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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618.92/026
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RJ320.S93C69 2018
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2018 E-748
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WS 430
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