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Death before birth fetal health and mortality in historical perspective

Title: Death before birth [electronic resource] : fetal health and mortality in historical perspective / Robert Woods.
Author: Woods, Robert.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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1 online resource (xvii, 294 p.) : ill.

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Death before birth (Online)

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Death before birth (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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