Dangerous Motherhood [electronic resource] : Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain / by H. Marland.
Dangerous Motherhood
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230511866 978-0-230-51186-6
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5160
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2004.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 303 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks, rather than being bound to ideas that women as a whole were likely to be vulnerable to mental illness. The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Clinical psychology.
Science __ History.
Social service.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Clinical Psychology.
History of Science.
Social Work.
Clinical psychology.
Science __ History.
Social service.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Clinical Psychology.
History of Science.
Social Work.
