Maternal impressions : the discourse of maternal imagination in the Eighteenth Century
Maternal imagination is the notion that a pregnant woman could alter the development of her foetus with the power of her thoughts and feelings. At the beginning of the long eighteenth century this notion circulated in both medical and popular understandings of pregnancy, however by the nineteenth ce...
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University of Southampton
2014
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