Death in Childbirth

An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800-1950

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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 continental 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 detailed study answers 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? It is an invaluable contribution to medical and social history.

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Free-lance medical historian

Release date Australia

November 5th, 1992

Author

Irvine Loudon

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Professional & Vocational

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line figures, tables

Pages

646

Dimensions

162x242x43

ISBN-13

9780198229971

Product ID

2352723

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