Böcker av Marjorie Tew

The revolution in maternity care: the diverse strands of a complicated tapestry.- Birth attendants and their places of practice.- The practices of attendants before birth.- The practices of attendants around the time of birth.- Maternity care; a public concern.- Evaluating the results of maternity care: statistical instruments.- Mortality of the mother.- Mortality of the child.- Epilogue: drawing fair conclusions from factual evidence.

Since the first edition went to press in 1989, there have been many important developments concerning different aspects of maternity care. A wide range of people concerned as pro viders or users of the service, as well as researchers concerned to find out how well the service was meeting needs, chose to submit testi monies, written and oral.