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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women's personal writings and doctors' publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the nineteenth century. Withycombe's pathbreaking research reveals how Americans construed, and continue to understand, miscarriage within a context of reproductive desires, expectations, and abilities. This is the first book to utilize women's own writings about miscarriage to explore the individual understandings of pregnancy loss and the multiple social and medical forces that helped to shape those perceptions. What emerges from Withycombe's work is unlike most medicalization narratives.
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Introduction 1
1. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture: Describing the Nineteenth-Century Miscarriage 13
2. Enveloped in Mystery: Pregnancy and Miscarriage in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 42
3. Before Its Due Time: Setting Standards in Miscarriage, 1830-1860s 59
4. Dr. Taylor Went Up in the Uterus: Miscarriage Treatment and Intrusive Interventions, 1860-1900 93
5. The Body in the Clot: Medical Interest in Miscarried Tissues, 1870-1912 125
Conclusion 162
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 177
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SHANNON WITHYCOMBE is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
