Death before birth : fetal health and mortality in historical perspective / Robert Woods.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

xvii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.