Irvine Loudon

Print publication date: 1992

Print ISBN-13: 9780198229971

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229971.001.0001

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ContentsFRONT MATTER

Title Pages
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
Appendix Tables
Introduction
Part I The Measurement of Maternal Mortality
- 1 The Measurement of Maternal Mortality
- 2 Problems of Measuring Maternal Mortality
Part II The Causes of Maternal Mortality
- 3 The Determinants of Maternal Mortality
- 4 Puerperal Fever
- 5 Toxaemia of Pregnancy and Eclampsia
- 6 Obstetric Haemorrhage
- 7 Abortion
- 8 Other Causes of Maternal Mortality
Part III Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Various Countries
- 9 The Importance of International Comparisons
- 10 Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England
- 11 The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Man-Midwifery
- 12 Maternal Care in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 13 Maternal Care in Britain, 1900–1935
- 14 Maternal Mortality in Britain from 1850 to the Mid-1930s
- 15 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Britain, 1935–1950
- 16 The Geography and Politics of Maternal Care in the USA: Introduction
- 17 Home Deliveries and the General Practitioner
- 18 The American Midwife
- 19 The American Lying-in Hospital, 1850–1910
- 20 Attitudes to Childbirth and the Problem of Pain
- 21 The Orgy of Interference
- 22 Maternal Mortality in the USA
- 23 Europe: Introduction
- 24 European Midwives
- 25 European Lying-in Hospitals and Obstetricians
- 26 Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality in Selected European Countries
- 27 Australia and New Zealand
- 28 Maternal and Infant Mortality
END MATTER
Appendix 1 Hidden Maternal Deaths
Appendix 2 England and Wales: The Classification of Maternal Deaths
Appendix 3 Reports on Maternal Mortality in the USA
appendix 4 Numbers of Births and Statistical Significance
Appendix 5 The Problem of Streptococcal Virulence
Appendix 6 Tables
Select Bibliography
Index

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Introduction

Chapter:: (p. xxiv ) (p. 1 ) Introduction
Source:: Death in Childbirth
Author(s):: Irvine Loudon
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229971.003.0001

This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the history, trends, and causes of maternal mortality. This book analyses the various systems of maternal care in different times and countries including Great Britain from 1900 to 1950, the US from 1850 to 1910, New Zealand, and Australia. It highlights the problems in measuring maternal mortality and some determinants of maternal mortality including obstetric haemorrhage, puerperal fever, toxaemia of pregnancy, and eclampsia.

Keywords: maternal mortality, maternal care, obstetric haemorrhage, puerperal fever, toxaemia of pregnancy, eclampsia

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