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Still life : hidden stories of stillbirth and forbidden grief / Lois Tonkin.

Title
Still life : hidden stories of stillbirth and forbidden grief / Lois Tonkin.
Author
Tonkin, Lois, 1955-
Publication
Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 1998.

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125 p. : ports.; 22 cm.
Summary
These are fascinating stories of the courage of ordinary women whose babies died before, during or shortly after birth. Before the 1980s, stillborn babies were rarely treated with respect. Doctors, nurses, family and friends all maintained a conspiracy of silence around the mother while the baby's existence was seldom acknowledged. Lois Tonkin encourages these women to reveal the grief forbidden them by an insensitive and ill-informed medical establishment and, indeed the community at large.
Subject
  • Stillbirth > New Zealand > Case studies
  • Stillbirth > New Zealand > Psychological aspects
  • Newborn infants > New Zealand > Case studies
  • Newborn infants > New Zealand > Psychological aspects
  • Grief > New Zealand > Case studies
  • Grief > New Zealand > Psychological aspects
  • Fetal Death > New Zealand
  • Infant Mortality > New Zealand
  • Grief > personal narratives
Genre/Form
Case studies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
187716142X (pbk.) :
OCLC
  • 45692145
  • SCSB-11367412
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library