The Eugenic Marriage (Vol. 1-4) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Complete Guide to Improved Living and Healthy OffspringBy W. Grant Hague
Length25h 8m
About this audiobook
The Eugenic Marriage (Vol. 1-4) is an ambitious early-twentieth-century manual of domestic medicine, sexual instruction, marriage guidance, pregnancy care, infant hygiene, and child development, framed through the period's now-discredited language of "eugenics." Its style is didactic, reformist, and encyclopedic, combining medical advice with moral exhortation. Read in literary and historical context, the work belongs to Progressive Era health literature, when popular science sought to regulate the family as the foundation of social improvement. W. Grant Hague, a physician-author writing for lay readers, reflects the medical confidence and social anxieties of his age. His concern with heredity, maternal responsibility, venereal disease, and "better babies" arose from a culture increasingly invested in public health, sanitation, and scientific motherhood. At the same time, the volumes reveal the troubling assumptions about class, gender, disability, and reproduction that shaped much eugenic thought. This work is recommended not as a modern guide, but as a significant historical document. Readers interested in medical humanities, gender studies, public health history, and the cultural authority of science will find it a revealing source, best approached critically and with awareness of the ethical failures embedded in its era.
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Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length25 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 19, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Volume 1
3Introduction
4Chapter I Conditions which have Evolved the Science of Eugenics
5Chapter II The Eugenic Idea
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6Chapter III Eugenics and Education
7Chapter IV Eugenics and the Unfit
8Chapter V What Every Mother Should Know About Eugenics
9Child-Birth
10Chapter VI Preparations for the Confinement
11Chapter VII The Hygiene of Pregnancy
12Chapter VIII The Management of Labor
13Chapter IX Confinement Incidents
14Chapter X Nursing Mothers
15Chapter XI Convalescing After Confinement
16Volume 2
17Sex Hygiene for the Boy
18Chapter XII Building Our Boys
19Chapter XIII The Parents and the Boy
20Chapter XIV A Mother's Duty to Her Daughter
21Chapter XV Preparing for Motherhood
22The Baby
23Chapter XVI Hygiene and Development of the Baby
24Chapter XVII Baby's Feeding Habits
25Chapter XVIII Baby's Good and Bad Habits. Food Formulas
26Artificial Feeding
27Chapter XIX Artificial Feeding
28Chapter XX Artificial Feeding—Continued
29What Mothers Should Know
30Chapter XXI The Education of the Mother
31Chapter XXII Constipation in Infants and Children
32Chapter XXIII Constipation in Women
33Volume 3
34Chapter XXIV The Formative Period
35Advice to Young Wives
36Chapter XXV How to Achieve
37Chapter XXVI Spare Moments
38The Home
39Chapter XXVII Domestic Qualities
40Chapter XXVIII How We Catch Disease
41Diseases of Women
42Chapter XXIX Diseases of Women
43The Patent Medicine Evil
44Chapter XXX The Patent Medicine Evil
45Chapter XXXI The Patent Medicine Evil—Continued
46Chapter XXXII The Patent Medicine Evil—Continued
47Chapter XXXIII The Patent Medicine Evil—Continued
48Volume 4
49Accidents and Emergencies
50Chapter XXXIV Common Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, and Chest
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