Table of Contents: Women and children first

Other Authors:	Fildes, Valerie A., Marks, Lara, 1963-, Marland, Hilary.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Physical Description:	xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:	Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine ; 4.
Subjects:	Maternal health services -- History -- 20th century. Maternal health services -- History -- 19th century. Infant health services -- History -- 20th century. Infant health services -- History -- 19th century. Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy.

Table of Contents:

Some international features of maternal mortality, 1880-1950 / Irvine Loudon
Maternity care and the threat of puerperal fever in Sydney, 1870-1939 / Milton Lewis
Mothers, babies and hospitals: the London and the provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939 / Lara Marks
Medicalization of motherhood: doctors and infant welfare in the Netherlands, 1901-1930 / Hilary Marland
Infant soldier: early child welfare efforts in Ontario / Cynthia.
R. Comacchio
Why does congress wish women and children to die?: the rise and fall of public maternal and infant health care in the United States, 1921-1929 / Molly Ladd-Taylor
Ephemeral lives: the unremitting infant mortality of colonial Burma, 1891-1941 / Judith Richell
Women and the state: maternal and child welfare in colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 / Lenore Manderson
Getting close to the hearts of mnothers': medical missionaries among African women and.
children in Johannesburg between the wars / Debby Gaitskell.
(cont) Dangerous motherhood: maternity care and the gendered construction of Afrikaner identity, 1904-1939 / Marijke du Toit
That welfare warfare: sectarianism in infant welfare in Australia, 1918-1939 / Philippa Mein Smith
Costs of modern motherhood to low income families in interwar Britain / Elizabeth Peretz.