{"id":99417,"date":"2023-09-09T04:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=99417"},"modified":"2023-09-09T04:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T04:46:01","slug":"monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=99417","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Monstrous births&#8217; and the making of race in the nineteenth-century United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, &#8220;monstrous births&#8221;\u2014malformed or anomalous fetuses\u2014were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an object of the &#8220;modern scientific study of monstrosity,&#8221; a field formalized by French scientist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-monstrous-births-nineteenth-century-states.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, &#8220;monstrous births&#8221;\u2014malformed or anomalous fetuses\u2014were, to Western medicine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/99417-monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}