Withycombe, Shannon,

Lost : miscarriage in nineteenth-century America / Shannon Withycombe. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages) - Critical issues in health and medicine .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Oh joy, oh rapture : describing the nineteenth-century miscarriage -- Enveloped in mystery : pregnancy and miscarriage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Before its due time : setting standards in miscarriage, 1830-1860s -- Dr. Taylor went up in the uterus : miscarriage treatment and intrusive interventions, 1860-1900 -- The body in the clot : medical interest in miscarried tissues, 1870-1912.



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Miscarriage--History--United States--19th century.
Miscarriage--Psychological aspects.--United States
Obstetricians--History--United States--19th century.
Abortion, Spontaneous--psychology.
Abortion, Spontaneous--history.
History, 19th Century.
Fetal Research--history.
Pregnancy--psychology.


Electronic Books.

RG648 / .L678 2019