7. Sleep Like a Baby

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Reinterpreting Sudden Infant Death: Explaining the Unexplainable 1
4. 1. “Deaths of Infants in Bed”: The Historical Origins of SIDS 11
5. 2. Cause of Death: SIDS 29
6. 3. The Theory of the Month Club: Conducting Research on SIDS 54
7. 4. Risky Babies 72
8. 5. Mobilization: SIDS Activism 92
9. 6. Cause for Alarm 114
10. 7. Sleep Like a Baby 136
11. Conclusion: “The Disease of Theories”: Discovering SIDS 162
12. Acknowledgments 169
13. Notes 171
14. Index 227