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Download or read book Twilight Sleep written by Edith Wharton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1927 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age--originally published in 1927. Taking her title from the sleep induced through medication to ease the pain during childbirth, Edith Wharton sketches a portrait of a society eager to escape the pain of everyday life through drugs and alcohol, secret sexual alliances, immersion in work, and the pursuit and capricious squandering of money.
Book Synopsis Twilight Sleep Illustrated by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book Twilight Sleep Illustrated written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight sleep is an amnesic condition characterized by insensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth.
Book Synopsis The Truth about Twilight Sleep by : Mrs. Hanna Rion Ver Beck
Download or read book The Truth about Twilight Sleep written by Mrs. Hanna Rion Ver Beck and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadly Sleep written by Dale Cowan and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1982 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery.
Book Synopsis Twilight sleep in America by : A. Smith
Download or read book Twilight sleep in America written by A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twilight sleep by : Henry Smith Williams
Download or read book Twilight sleep written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sleep Donation written by Karen Russell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly illustrated and available for the first time in years, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis--one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to sleep. Trish cries, she shakes, she shows potential donors a picture of her deceased sister, Dori: one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia plague that has swept the globe. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by "Baby A," the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y," whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. Fully illustrated with dreamy evocations of Russell's singular imagination and featuring a brand-new "Nightmare Appendix," Sleep Donation will keep readers up long into the night and long after haunt their dreams.
Book Synopsis Twilight Sleep (Unabridged) by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book Twilight Sleep (Unabridged) written by Edith Wharton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Twilight Sleep (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age is a critically praised best-seller since it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing - these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She became known for her psychological examination of characters faced with changes in the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society. Her novels and short stories provide numerous expert characterizations of complex men and women.
Book Synopsis Deliver Me from Pain by : Jacqueline H. Wolf
Download or read book Deliver Me from Pain written by Jacqueline H. Wolf and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and newborns, paradoxically came to assuage women's anxiety about birth. Each chapter begins with the story of a birth, dramatically illustrating the unique practices of the era being examined. Deliver Me from Pain covers the development and use of anesthesia from ether and chloroform in the mid-nineteenth century; to amnesiacs, barbiturates, narcotics, opioids, tranquilizers, saddle blocks, spinals, and gas during the mid-twentieth century; to epidural anesthesia today. Labor pain is not merely a physiological response, but a phenomenon that mothers and physicians perceive through a historical, social, and cultural lens. Wolf examines these influences and argues that medical and lay views of labor pain and the concomitant acceptance of obstetric anesthesia have had a ripple effect, creating the conditions for acceptance of other, often unnecessary, and sometimes risky obstetric treatments: forceps, the chemical induction and augmentation of labor, episiotomy, electronic fetal monitoring, and Cesarean section. As American women make decisions about anesthesia today, Deliver Me from Pain offers them insight into how women made this choice in the past and why each generation of mothers has made dramatically different decisions.
Book Synopsis Twilight Sleep Annotated by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book Twilight Sleep Annotated written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight sleep is an amnesic condition characterized by insensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth.
Book Synopsis Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth by : Margarete Sandelowski
Download or read book Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth written by Margarete Sandelowski and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-06-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly work results from a study of childbirth in the United States between 1914 and 1960, for which the author has consulted a plethora of both popular and technical sources. For a medical text, it is very readable, as it traces women's shifting attitudes toward control over birth processes, alleviation of pain, and pursuit of pleasure from participation in the birth of their children. ... An excellent history, copiously documented; highly recommended for university as well as medical libraries.
Download or read book Fighting Sleep written by Franny Nudelman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action. During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of “combat fatigue.” Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms—nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia —and pioneered new methods of protest. In Fighting Sleep, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that the subject was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and antiwar activism.
Download or read book Lying-in written by Richard W. Wertz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980's. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on delivering perfect babies, with its emphasis on technology, prenatal testing, and Caesarean sections. They argue that there are many viable alternatives--including out-of-hospital births--in the search for the best birthing system. Review of the first edition: "Highly readable, extensively documented, and well illustrated...A welcome addition to American social history and women's studies. It can also be read with profit by health planners, hospital administrators, 'consumers' of health care, and all those who are concerned with improving the circumstances associated with childbirth."--Claire Elizabeth Fox, bulletin of the History of Medicine "A fascinating, brilliantly documented history not merely of childbirth, but of men's attitudes towards women, the effect of a burgeoning medical profession on our very conception of maternity and motherhood, and the influence of religion on medical technology and science."--Thomas J. Cottle, Boston Globe "This superb book...is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole."--Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly an associate professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dorothy C. Wertz, is a research professor at the School of Public Health, Boston University
Download or read book Twilight Sleep written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Twilight Sleep' is a best-selling satirical novel about a woman's attempts to alleviate the boredom of life. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled 'Mrs. Manstey’s View'. Over the next four decades, they – along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper’s and Lippincott’s – regularly published her work.
Download or read book Nursing World written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twilight Sleep by : Henry Smith Williams
Download or read book Twilight Sleep written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis TRUTH ABT TWILIGHT SLEEP by : Hanna Rion Mrs Ver Beck, 1875
Download or read book TRUTH ABT TWILIGHT SLEEP written by Hanna Rion Mrs Ver Beck, 1875 and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
