| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction to fetal health and mortality -- Definitions, measurement, influences -- The prospects for survival from conception to childhood -- Comparative historical trends and variations -- Midwifery and fetal death -- Fetal pathology and social obstetrics -- Arguments from medical history and demography -- Induced abortion and the fetus as patient : a continuing paradox |
| Summary |
Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area. Medical historians have tended to focus on maternal mortality and professional conflicts between midwives rather than on the unborn, while among the social scientists demographers and epidemiologists have until recently devoted most of their attention to infants and children. Death before Birth redresses this imbalance, redirecting attention to the fetus. A study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day, it is the first book to offer an historical perspective on the subject an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fetal death -- History
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Infants -- Mortality -- History
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Midwifery -- History
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Obstetrics -- History
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Fetal Death -- history
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Fetal Mortality
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History, Modern 1601-
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Midwifery -- history
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Stillbirth
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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Fetal death
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Infants -- Mortality
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Midwifery
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Obstetrics
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191571688 |
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0191571687 |
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0191715352 |
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9780191715358 |
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1282349147 |
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9781282349148 |
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9786612349140 |
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661234914X |
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