Death in childbirth
Subtitle: an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality, 1800-1950
By: Irvine Loudon.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Prenatal care -- History -- 19th century.; Prenatal care -- History -- 20th century.; Mothers -- Mortality -- History -- 19th century.; Mothers -- Mortality -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This is 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-614) and index.