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Dangerous Motherhood : Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain by Hilary Marland is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 and turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous, mad women, was magnified by its occurrence at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers. About the Author Hilary Marland is Reader in History and Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick.

Who reads Dangerous Motherhood : Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain?

Author

Hilary Marland

Publisher

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230511866

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Psychology, Medical

Rating

4 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13