Safer childbirth?
Subtitle: a critical history of maternity care
By: Marjorie Tew.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Childbirth -- History.; Maternal health services -- History.
Description: Reviews the factors that have made birth safer: discredits the hypothesis that obstetricians are responsible for improved safety and supports the alternative view that safety in childbirth depends primarily on the good health of mothers which rising standards of living and nutrition have increasingly made possible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.