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1 online resource (xxiii, 622 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The Measurement Of Maternal Mortality -- The Measurement of Maternal Mortality -- Measuring Maternal Mortality as Total Maternal Deaths -- Measuring Maternal Mortality in Terms of Population -- The Maternal Mortality Rate -- Problems of Measuring Maternal Mortality -- Stillbirths and Multiple Births -- The Length of the Postnatal Period -- The Registration of Births and Deaths in England and Wales -- The Registration of Births and Deaths in other Countries -- Nosology and the International Classification of Diseases -- Associated Deaths -- Associated Deaths and Multiple Causes of Death -- The Proportion of Associated Deaths -- Associated Deaths and International Comparisons -- Hidden Maternal Deaths -- The Causes Of Maternal Mortality -- The Determinants of Maternal Mortality -- Standards of Living and Standards of Care -- The Problem of Poverty -- Puerperal Fever -- Puerperal Fever: Terminology and Fatality -- The Clinical Course of Puerperal Fever -- The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever -- Charles White of Manchester -- Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen -- Some other Accounts of the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever -- Oliver Wendell Holmes and Puerperal Fever -- Ignaz Semmelweis and Puerperal Fever -- The Neglect of Gordon, Holmes, and Semmelweis -- Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas -- The Bacteriology of Puerperal Fever -- Endogenous and Exogenous Infection -- The Importance of the Asymptomatic Carrier -- The Treatment of Puerperal Fever -- Toxaemia of Pregnancy and Eclampsia -- Early Ideas about the Nature of Toxaemia -- Treatment and Prevention -- Mortality from Toxaemia -- Obstetric Haemorrhage -- Post-partum Haemorrhage -- Ante-partum Haemorrhage -- Accidental Haemorrhage or Placental Abruption -- Ante-partum Haemorrhage: Placenta Praevia -- The Mortality from Haemorrhage -- Abortion -- Abortion in Britain -- Abortion in other Countries: Europe -- Abortion in the Soviet Union -- Abortion in the USA -- Social and Legal Aspects of Abortion -- Other Causes of Maternal Mortality -- Contracted Pelvis and Rickets -- Surgical Measures in Contracted Pelvis -- The incidence of the Rachitic Contracted Pelvis -- Puerperal Insanity, Puerperal Mania -- Maternal Mortality, Duration of Pregnancy, and Stillbirths -- Maternal Care And Maternal Mortality In Various Countries -- The Importance of International Comparisons -- Britain -- Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England -- Women's Perception of Maternal Mortality -- The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Man-Midwifery -- Maternal Care in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Who Delivered the Babies in the Nineteenth Century? -- The Nineteenth-Century Midwife -- Childbirth and the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century -- Physicians, Surgeons, and the Teaching of Midwifery -- Medical Education and Midwifery in Scotland -- Institutional Care in the Nineteenth Century -- Maternal Mortality in Institutional Deliveries -- The Antiseptic Revolution -- Maternal Care in Britain, 1900-1935 -- Midwives Acts, Government Reports, and Public Opinion -- The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists -- Midwives and Handywomen -- Obstetrics in General Practice, 1900-1935 -- Maternity Hospitals and Medical Education, 1900-1935 -- Maternal Care, 1900-1935 -- Maternal Mortality in Britain from 1850 to the Mid-1930s -- Maternal Mortality, 1850-1910 -- Maternal Mortality, 1910-1934 -- Regional Variations -- Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Britain, 1935-1950 -- England and Wales -- The Decline of Puerperal Fever, the Sulphonamides, and the Streptococcus -- The Decline in Maternal Mortality and the Second World War -- Abortion, Illegitimacy, and the War -- USA -- The Geography and Politics of Maternal Care in the USA: Introduction -- The Politics of Maternal Care in the USA -- Maternal Mortality and the Public Health -- Home Deliveries and the General Practitioner -- The Old Style of Family Doctor -- The Conservative Phase of Obstetric Practice -- Increased Intervention in Home Deliveries -- The General Practitioner and Maternal Mortality -- Rural and Urban Maternal Mortality -- Medical Education and Obstetrics in the USA -- The American Midwife -- The Registration and Education of American Midwives -- The Immigrant Midwives -- Rural Midwifery in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Black Midwives of the Southern States -- The Kentucky Frontier Nursing Service -- Obstetricians against Midwives -- The American Lying-in Hospital, 1850-1910 -- The Lying-in Hospitals, 1850-1910 -- Antisepsis and Hospital Deliveries -- Maternal Care and the Hospital, 1900-1935 -- Out-patient Maternity Services -- Attitudes to Childbirth and the Problem of Pain -- Primitive and Civilized Women -- Pain Relief in Childbirth -- Twilight Sleep -- Pain Relief after Twilight Sleep -- The Orgy of Interference -- DeLee and the Prophylactic Forceps Operation -- The Extent of Interference -- Michigan: A Typical State? -- Maternal Mortality in the USA -- Regional Differences in Maternal Mortality -- Maternal Mortality and Race in the USA -- Poverty and Maternal Mortality amongst Non-White Women -- Secular Trends in Maternal Mortality in Various States -- Maternal Care and Mortality in Two North American Religious Groups -- Europe -- Some General Differences -- European Midwives -- The French Midwives -- The Swedish Midwives -- The Dutch Midwives -- The Danish Midwives -- The European Midwives -- European Lying-in Hospitals and Obstetricians -- The Problem of Puerperal Fever -- Tarnier and Puerperal Fever in Paris -- Maternal Mortality and Antisepsis on the Continent -- Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Selected European Countries -- Genetic, Socio-economic, and Cultural Differences as the Explanation of Maternal Mortality Rates -- Trends in European Maternal Mortality -- The Effects of the Second World War -- Australia And New Zealand -- Australia -- Australia: Standards of Maternal Care in the Inter-war Period -- Abortion in Australia -- The Decline in Maternal Mortality in Australia -- New Zealand -- Maternal and Infant Mortality -- Definition of Mortality Rates -- The Determinants of Infant Mortality -- The Shift of Infant Mortality from Post-Neonatal to Neonatal during the Twentieth Century -- Secular Trends in Infant and Maternal Mortality -- The Effects of Social and Economic Deprivation on Maternal and Infant Mortality -- International and Regional Comparisons of Infant and Maternal Mortality -- Maternal Mortality and Maternal Age and Parity -- Neonatal Mortality and Maternal Age and Parity -- The Direct Causes of Maternal and Infant Mortality -- Prematurity and Pre-term Delivery -- Birth Injury -- Causes in Individuals and in Populations -- Hidden Maternal Deaths -- England and Wales: The Classification of Maternal Deaths -- Reports on Maternal Mortality in the USA -- Numbers of Births and Statistical Significance -- The Problem of Streptococcal Virulence -- Britain -- United States of America -- Europe -- Australia and New Zealand |
| Summary |
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 |
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Pregnant women Health services History |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-614) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Prenatal care -- History -- 19th century
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Prenatal care -- History -- 20th century
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Mothers -- Mortality -- History -- 19th century
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Mothers -- Mortality -- History -- 20th century
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Mothers -- Mortality.
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Prenatal Care -- history
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Maternal Mortality
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Mothers -- Mortality.
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Prenatal care.
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Sterfte.
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Kraamvrouwenkoorts.
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Moederschapszorg.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
92020160 |
| ISBN |
9780191678950 |
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0191678953 |
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