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Author Clair, Brittany, 1986- author.

Title Rest uneasy : sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America / Brittany Cowgill.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 236 pages).
text file
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Summary 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. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
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Subject Sudden infant death syndrome.
Sudden infant death syndrome.
Sudden infant death syndrome -- Prevention.
Sudden infant death syndrome -- Prevention.
Infants -- Mortality -- United States -- History.
Infants -- Mortality.
United States.
History.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America
Other Form: Print version: Cowgill, Brittany, 1986- Rest uneasy. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018] 9780813588209 (DLC) 2017021380
ISBN 9780813588223 (electronic book)
0813588227 (electronic book)
9780813588216 (electronic book)
0813588219 (electronic book)
9780813588209 hardcover ; alkaline paper

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