Author: C. B. Davenport and Albert G. LovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Scientific Monthly, defects found in drafted men
Author: C. B. Davenport and Albert G. LovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Scientific Monthly
Author: James McKeen CattellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Improvement Era
Author: Bulletin
Author: Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.). Eugenics Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Physical Defects of School Children and Methods of Correction
Author: Willard Leroy MuehlThe Eugenics Review
Author: The Hahnemannian Monthly
Author: The Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology
Author: The Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Abstract of the Literature
Author: Rickets, Race and Reproduction
Author: Deborah Kuhn McGregorPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651043
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly associated with childhood, and studies its association with race and its long-reaching effects on childbirth. For centuries, the condition was poorly understood. For females, rickets could pose a double jeopardy: suffering in childhood and severe danger in adulthood when giving birth. The disease could result in a contracted pelvis that obstructs the birth canal. Medical researchers were faced with two distinct challenges: unravelling the etiology of rickets and ensuring the safety of women giving birth--both proved especially difficult. Thought variously to be a disease of industrial cities and children of the poor, grounded in lack of exercise or sunlight, or the of product racial difference, the condition defied analysis until the discovery of vitamin D early in the 20th century. The dangers of rickets radically diminished. Medical intervention in childbirth continued, and childbirth increasingly shifted from the home to the hospital. Medical practitioners justified intervention by emphasizing the dangers of pelvic disproportion, continually enlarging the definition to gain full control of birth. Often conditioned by racial assumptions, surgical experimentation promoted common use of anesthesia and a radical increase in caesarean sections, and birth became a colder, more clinical experience.