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Death in Childbirth

By Irvine Loudon

Death in Childbirth

By Irvine Loudon

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This is the first international study of maternal care and maternal mortality. Over the last two hundred years, different countries developed quite different systems of maternal care. Death in Childbirth is a meticulously researched analysis, firmly grounded in the available statistics, of the evolution of those systems between 1800 and 1950 in Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, and on the continent of Europe. Irvine Loudon examines the effectiveness of various forms of maternal care by means of the measurement of maternal mortality - the number of women who died as a result of childbirth. His scholarly and comprehensive study sets out to answer a number of important questions. What was the relative risk of a home or hospital delivery, or a delivery by a midwife as opposed to a doctor? What was the safest country in which to have a baby, and what were the factors which accounted for enormous international differences? Why, against all expectations, did maternal mortality fail to decline significantly until the late 1930s? Death in Childbirth makes an invaluable contribution to medical and social history.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
648
Release Date:
1993-02-11
Publication Date:
1994-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198229976
ISBN13:
9780198229971
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
1
Maximum Reading Age:
110
Weight:
1188 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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