Death in childbirth

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An international study of maternal care and maternal mortality. Since about 1800, different countries have developed quite different systems of maternal care, and this book provides an analysis, grounded in statistics, of the evolution and the effectiveness of those systems in various countries.



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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 november 1992

Aantal pagina's: 646

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Irvine Loudon

Tweede Auteur: Loudon

Hoofduitgeverij: Clarendon Press

Editie: illustrated edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 162 mm

Product hoogte: 43 mm

Product lengte: 242 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 162 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 43 mm

Verpakking lengte: 242 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1053 g

EAN: 9780198229971

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