{"id":765157,"date":"2023-09-07T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765157"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:09:02","slug":"monstrous-births-and-the-making-of-race-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765157","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Monstrous births&#039; 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.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-monstrous-births-nineteenth-century-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Monstrous births&#8217; and the making of race in the nineteenth-century United States<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/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, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an object of the &#8220;modern&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}