Dangerous Motherhood

Name: Dangerous Motherhood
Author: H. Marland

Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2004

ISBN13: 9781349514632

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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 would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.

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ISBN13:9781349514632

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Birth of Puerperal Insanity Boundaries of Expertise and the Location of Puerperal Insanity Disordered Households: Puerperal Insanity and the Bourgeois Home Thin, Incoherent and Violent: Patients and Puerperal Insanity in the Royal Edinburgh Asylum Women, Doctors and Mental Disorder: Explaining Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century Dangerous Mothers: Puerperal Insanity and Infanticide From Redemption to the Dark Age: The Decline of Puerperal Insanity Appendix: Dr John Batty Tuke: Tables Illustrative of Puerperal Insanity in the Royal Edinburgh Asylum Bibliography Index

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