Death before birth
Subtitle: fetal health and mortality in historical perspective
By: Robert Woods.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199542758
Subjects: Fetal death -- History; Infants -- Mortality -- History; Midwifery -- History; Obstetrics -- History; Fetal Death -- history; Fetal Mortality; History, Modern 1601-; Midwifery -- history; Stillbirth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to fetal health and mortality; title: Definitions, measurement, influences; title: The prospects for survival from conception to childhood; title: Comparative historical trends and variations; title: Midwifery and fetal death; title: Fetal pathology and social obstetrics; title: Arguments from medical history and demography; title: Induced abortion and the fetus as patient : a continuing paradox.