03630nam 22006735 450 991079492270332120191221113333.00-8135-8821-90-8135-8822-710.36019/9780813588223(CKB)4340000000264720(OCoLC)986523726(MdBmJHUP)muse65326(MiAaPQ)EBC5347044(DE-B1597)526189(DE-B1597)9780813588223(EXLCZ)99434000000026472020191221d2018 fg engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRest Uneasy Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-­Century America /Brittany CowgillNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (vii, 236 pages)Critical Issues in Health and Medicine0-8135-8819-7 0-8135-8820-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Reinterpreting Sudden Infant Death: Explaining the Unexplainable -- 1. "Deaths of Infants in Bed": The Historical Origins of SIDS -- 2. Cause of Death: SIDS -- 3. The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS -- 4. Risky Babies -- 5. Mobilization: SIDS Activism -- 6. Cause for Alarm -- 7. Sleep Like a Baby -- Conclusion: "The Disease of Theories": Discovering SIDS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- IndexTracing 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 of 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, Americans 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 assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS, illuminating how and why SIDS has continued to cast a shadow over doctors and parents.Critical issues in health and medicine.History, 20th CenturyRisk Reduction BehaviorInfant MortalityhistorySudden Infant Deathprevention & controlSudden Infant DeathetiologyUnited StatesElectronic books. SIDS.Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.history.infant death.medicine.History, 20th CenturyRisk Reduction BehaviorInfant MortalityhistorySudden Infant Deathprevention & controlSudden Infant Deathetiology618.92/026Cowgill Brittany, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1548884DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910794922703321Rest Uneasy3806275UNINA