Death Before Birth - Fetal Health and Mortality in Historical Perspective

Zusatztext This is a richly detailed examination of the changing fortunes of the foetus from the seventeenth century onward. Informationen zum Autor Robert Woods was John Rankin Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He was the author of The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (2000) and Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past (2006). He edited the journal Population Studies and was a Fellow of the British Academy. Klappentext A study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day (focusing principally upon European and North American populations), this is the first book to offer a historical perspective on the subject and to combine both medical history and demographic research, using long-term and comparative perspectives. Zusammenfassung A study of fetal health from the seventeenth century to the present day (focusing principally upon European and North American populations), this is the first book to offer a historical perspective on the subject and to combine both medical history and demographic research, using long-term and comparative perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Woods
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780199542758
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954275-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, Midwifery, Biogeography, Population & demography, Population and Demography