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

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

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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.
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A monumental study. 5 Nov 1999
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This is an utterly stunning work that should be required reading for all midwives, obstetrician-gynecologists, feminists of all persuasions--anybody involved in the health care of women. Not only does it take the wind out of the sails of those who believe childbirth is without consequences (part of the natural history of natural childbirth is maternal death), but it demonstrates how the industrialized world dropped its maternal mortality ratios nearly 100-fold in a century. This has important policy implications for international health work--providing that the international community can persuade developing countries to take women's health care needs seriously. Highly recommended.
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Death in Childbirth 13 Sep 2007
By Iain Esslemont - Published on Amazon.com
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'Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800-1950' is a researched and detailed account of the risks of childbirth over the past two hundred years. It documents the changes which have taken place over that period of time and the reasons for the improvement in maternity care.

What I have learned from the book is that the teaching I received in midwifery was, from its criterion, very good but I wish that I had the knowledge derived from 'Death in Childbirth' while I was still actively engaged in obstetrics and teaching general practice.

Much of the medical profession is reasonably well-versed nowadays on the subject of midwifery but some misconceptions heard by me have been rectified by the information given.

I would recommend that 'Death in Childbirth' be required reading by medical students, doctors interested in obstetrics, and by ministers of health.

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