A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000
By Clare Hanson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2004-09-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 033398644X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780333986448
Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and fetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.
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