LEADER 03630nam 22006735 450 001 9910794922703321 005 20191221113333.0 010 $a0-8135-8821-9 010 $a0-8135-8822-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813588223 035 $a(CKB)4340000000264720 035 $a(OCoLC)986523726 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65326 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5347044 035 $a(DE-B1597)526189 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813588223 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000264720 100 $a20191221d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRest Uneasy $eSudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-­Century America /$fBrittany Cowgill 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ : $cRutgers University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 236 pages) 225 0 $aCritical Issues in Health and Medicine 311 $a0-8135-8819-7 311 $a0-8135-8820-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction: Reinterpreting Sudden Infant Death: Explaining the Unexplainable -- $t1. "Deaths of Infants in Bed": The Historical Origins of SIDS -- $t2. Cause of Death: SIDS -- $t3. The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS -- $t4. Risky Babies -- $t5. Mobilization: SIDS Activism -- $t6. Cause for Alarm -- $t7. Sleep Like a Baby -- $tConclusion: "The Disease of Theories": Discovering SIDS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aTracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. American medicine reinterpreted and reconceived of the problem of sudden infant death multiple times over the course of the twentieth century. Its various approaches linked sudden infant deaths to all kinds of different causes-biological, anatomical, environmental, and social. In the context of a nation increasingly skeptical, yet increasingly expectant, of medicine, Americans struggled to cope with the paradoxes of sudden infant death; they worked to admit their powerlessness to prevent SIDS even while they tried to overcome it. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS, illuminating how and why SIDS has continued to cast a shadow over doctors and parents. 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aHistory, 20th Century 606 $aRisk Reduction Behavior 606 $aInfant Mortality$xhistory 606 $aSudden Infant Death$xprevention & control 606 $aSudden Infant Death$xetiology 607 $aUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aSIDS. 610 $aSudden Infant Death Syndrome. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ainfant death. 610 $amedicine. 615 22$aHistory, 20th Century 615 22$aRisk Reduction Behavior 615 22$aInfant Mortality$xhistory 615 22$aSudden Infant Death$xprevention & control 615 12$aSudden Infant Death$xetiology 676 $a618.92/026 700 $aCowgill$b Brittany, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$01548884 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794922703321 996 $aRest Uneasy$93806275 997 $aUNINA