Death before birth fetal health and mortality in historical perspective

Death before birth : fetal health and mortality in historical perspective / Robert Woods.

Author/creator	Woods, Robert
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	xvii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History
Subject(s)	Fetal death--History. Infants--Mortality --History. Midwifery--History. Obstetrics--History. Fetal Death--history. Fetal Mortality. History, Modern 1601-. Midwifery--history. Stillbirth.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009019397
ISBN	9780199542758 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0199542759 (hardback : alk. paper)

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