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EBOOK Death before Birth:Fetal Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191609220
EAN: 39FA1FC7EB
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Stron: 312
Data wydania: 2009
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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 and to combine both medical history and epidemiological        and demographic research, using long-term and comparative perspectives, including a        strong international comparative element, across both Europe and North America. The        book not only provides an account of howfetal health and the risks facing the unborn        (miscarriages, abortions, stillbirths etc) have changed, it also offers an        interpretation of the causes, one that focuses on the role of obstetrics and the        epidemiology of maternal infections.Along the way, it pays detailed attention to a        host of related themes, such as varying cultural practices in the recognition of        stillbirths; the age pattern of mortality risk between conception and live birth;        comparative trends in late-fetal mortality and their causes; fetal mortality and        obstetric care during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; and the        contrasting approaches of the pathologists and 'social epidemiologists' to the        causes of fetal death. The book concludes witha study of the 'fetus as patient',        focusing on issues surrounding the legalization of abortion in many Western        countries and the public health challenges of persistently high mortality in less        developed countries.

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