Losing Sleep : : Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety / / Laura Harrison.

New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 4 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. “Sleep Like a Baby” and Other Historical Fallacies
  • 2. Making and Unmaking a Safe Sleep Environment: From the AAP to the Rock ‘n Play Recall
  • 3. What’s Best for Baby? Co-Sleeping and the Politics of Inequality
  • 4. “Everybody Loses”: Parents as Perpetrators
  • 5. Advertising Infant Safety: Gender, Risk, and the Good Parent
  • Conclusion: Rethinking the Safe Sleep Environment
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author