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Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London (2019)
Book Chapter
Hodson, C. M., & Gowland, R. L. (2019). Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (39-64). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_3

Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Overcrowded and squalid housing, physically demanding and risky working conditions, air and water pollution, inadequate diet and exposure to infectious di... Read More about Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London.