Miriam Sommers Rich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4878204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Sommers Rich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam Sommers |
| FAMILY NAME | Rich |
| SIGNATURE | RICH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conceiving Monsters: Women, Knowledge, and Anomalous Births in the Nineteenth-Century United States
This essay examines historical case literature on "monstrous births," revealing how childbearing women both participated in and were excluded from processes of medical knowledge-making. In the nineteenth-century United States, physicians studied newborns with major anatomical differences as "medical specimens of monstrosity," asserting a singular authority over knowledge of bodies and reproduction. However, this essay shows that in practice medic…
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States
This essay analyzes the medical study of “monstrous birth” as a site of race-making in the nineteenth-century United States. It argues that the medical theorization of monstrosity was structured by multiple logics of race, which both shaped and emerged from medical authorities’ efforts to classify and interpret anomalous newborn bodies. Materialized at the intersection of these logics, the biological monster theorized a racial order that was hier…
The Curse of Civilised Woman: Race, Gender and the Pain of Childbirth in Nineteenth‐Century American Medicine
Accounts of the easy, painless childbearing of ‘primitive’ non‐white women in comparison to their ‘civilised’ white counterparts were ubiquitous in early modern travel literature. In the nineteenth‐century United States, such narratives were increasingly taken up in medical and scientific literature, catalysing the production of new forms of knowledge about race and bodies. This article analyses several key medico‐scientific theories produced to …
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The collision of DNA, race, and history; Race and the Genetic Revolution: science, myth, and culture
The Curse of Civilised Woman: Race, Gender and the Pain of Childbirth in Nineteenth‐Century American Medicine
Accounts of the easy, painless childbearing of ‘primitive’ non‐white women in comparison to their ‘civilised’ white counterparts were ubiquitous in early modern travel literature. In the nineteenth‐century United States, such narratives were increasingly taken up in medical and scientific literature, catalysing the production of new forms of knowledge about race and bodies. This article analyses several key medico‐scientific theories produced to …
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The collision of DNA, race, and history; Race and the Genetic Revolution: science, myth, and culture
The Curse of Civilised Woman: Race, Gender and the Pain of Childbirth in Nineteenth‐Century American Medicine
Accounts of the easy, painless childbearing of ‘primitive’ non‐white women in comparison to their ‘civilised’ white counterparts were ubiquitous in early modern travel literature. In the nineteenth‐century United States, such narratives were increasingly taken up in medical and scientific literature, catalysing the production of new forms of knowledge about race and bodies. This article analyses several key medico‐scientific theories produced to …
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States
This essay analyzes the medical study of “monstrous birth” as a site of race-making in the nineteenth-century United States. It argues that the medical theorization of monstrosity was structured by multiple logics of race, which both shaped and emerged from medical authorities’ efforts to classify and interpret anomalous newborn bodies. Materialized at the intersection of these logics, the biological monster theorized a racial order that was hier…
Conceiving Monsters: Women, Knowledge, and Anomalous Births in the Nineteenth-Century United States
This essay examines historical case literature on "monstrous births," revealing how childbearing women both participated in and were excluded from processes of medical knowledge-making. In the nineteenth-century United States, physicians studied newborns with major anatomical differences as "medical specimens of monstrosity," asserting a singular authority over knowledge of bodies and reproduction. However, this essay shows that in practice medic…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race (biology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Eugenics (2 works)