Irvine Loudon: Death in Childbirth | Buch

Cover: 9780198229971 | Death in Childbirth | Irvine Loudon | Buch | Englisch | 1993

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Beschreibung

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 on the continent of 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 scholarly and comprehensive study sets out to answer 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? Death in Childbirth makes an invaluable contribution to medical and social history.

Über den Autor

Free-lance medical historian

Zusammenfassung

By the author of the well-received Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750-1850 (Clarendon Press, 1986)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. The Measurement of Maternal Mortality

1: The measurement of maternal mortality

2: Problems of measuring maternal mortality

Part II. The Causes of Maternal Mortality

3: The determinants of maternal mortality

4: Puerperal fever

5: Toxaemia of pregnancy and eclampsia

6: Obstetric haemorrhage

7: Abortion

8: Other causes of maternal mortality

Part III: Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Various Countries

9: The importance of international comparisons

10: Maternal mortality in pre-registration England

11: The eighteenth-century and the origins of man-midwifery

12: Maternal care in nineteenth-century Britain

13: Maternal care in Britain 1900-1935

14: Maternal mortality in Britain from 1850 to the mid-1930s

15: Maternal care and maternal mortality in Britain 1935-1950

16: The geography and politics of maternal care in the USA: Introduction

17: Home deliveries and the general practitioner

18: The American midwife

19: The American lying-in hospital

20: Attitudes to childbirth and the problem of pain

21: The orgy of interference

22: Maternal mortality in the USA

23: Europe: Introduction

24: European midwives

25: European lying-in hospitals and obstetricians

26: Maternal care and maternal mortality in selected European countries

27: Australia and New Zealand

28: Maternal and infant mortality

Appendices

Select bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1993
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780198229971
ISBN-10:	0198229976
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Loudon, Irvine
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	236 x 161 x 42 mm
Von/Mit:	Irvine Loudon
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.02.1993
Gewicht:	1,052 kg

Artikel-ID: 133175944