Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800-1950

by Irvine Loudon

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. Loudon examines the effectiveness of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198229976
• ISBN13: 9780198229971
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 646 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"