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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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Book/Text | Request in advance | RG632.N45 T66 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 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