Death in Childbirth
An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800-1950
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 5 November 1992
- ISBN 9780198229971
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages646 pages
- Size 242x162x43 mm
- Weight 1053 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Long description:
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.
`Loudon's acute awareness of his subject's complexity and his sensitivity give the writing a wonderful suppleness and restraint. ... An expensive book worth every penny, it is one which lactation consultants and all those interested in maternal and child health issues today should own, read, and ponder.'
J Hum Lact 9(4) 1993
Table of Contents:
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Measurement of Maternal Mortality
The measurement of maternal mortality
Problems of measuring maternal mortality
Part II. The Causes of Maternal Mortality
The determinants of maternal mortality
Puerperal fever
Toxaemia of pregnancy and eclampsia
Obstetric haemorrhage
Abortion
Other causes of maternal mortality
Part III: Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Various Countries
The importance of international comparisons
Maternal mortality in pre-registration England
The eighteenth-century and the origins of man-midwifery
Maternal care in nineteenth-century Britain
Maternal care in Britain 1900-1935
Maternal mortality in Britain from 1850 to the mid-1930s
Maternal care and maternal mortality in Britain 1935-1950
The geography and politics of maternal care in the USA: Introduction
Home deliveries and the general practitioner
The American midwife
The American lying-in hospital
Attitudes to childbirth and the problem of pain
The orgy of interference
Maternal mortality in the USA
Europe: Introduction
European midwives
European lying-in hospitals and obstetricians
Maternal care and maternal mortality in selected European countries
Australia and New Zealand
Maternal and infant mortality
Appendices
Select bibliography
Index
