Rest uneasy : sudden infant death syndrome in twentieth century America /
Brittany Cowgill.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Critical issues in health and medicine .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
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Sudden infant death syndrome. Sudden infant death syndrome--Prevention. Infants--Mortality--History.--United States