The Tragedy of Childbed Fever

ISBN-13: 9780198204992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str.

Irvine Loudon

Opis

Childbed fever was by the far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth throughout Europe up to the Second World War. Otherwise known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and resulted in miserable and agonizing deaths for thousands of women every year. This book provides the first detailed account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the eighteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth century, examining it within a fully comprehensive history of infectious diseases.

Recenzje

a characteristically expertly researched, humane and beautifully written book ... his is a sobering - indeed, as he says, tragic - story of how those who have put their trust in the medical profession all too often needlessly end up not happy mothers, but corpses.

O autorze

Irvine Loudon is a freelance historian of medicine