Robert Woods was John Rankin Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He was the author of The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (2000) and Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past (2006). He edited the journal Population Studies and was a Fellow of the British Academy.

Death before birth is a wide-ranging and multi-faceted book...It is a challenging, informative and thought provoking study which will undoubtedly become required reading for students of historical and contemporary demography, epidemiology, reproductive health, the history of medicine, social history and women's history.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction to fetal health and mortality ; 2. Definitions, measurement, influences ; 3. The prospects for survival from conception to childhood ; 4. Fetal mortality in comparative perspective ; 5. Midwifery and fetal death ; 6. Fetal pathology and social obstetrics ; 7. Arguments from medical history and demography ; 8. Induced abortion and the fetus as patient: a continuing paradox ; Bibliography ; Index

Robert Woods was John Rankin Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He was the author of The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (2000) and Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past (2006). He edited the journal Population Studies and was a Fellow of the British Academy.

Death before birth is a wide-ranging and multi-faceted book...It is a challenging, informative and thought provoking study which will undoubtedly become required reading for students of historical and contemporary demography, epidemiology, reproductive health, the history of medicine, social history and women's history.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction to fetal health and mortality ; 2. Definitions, measurement, influences ; 3. The prospects for survival from conception to childhood ; 4. Fetal mortality in comparative perspective ; 5. Midwifery and fetal death ; 6. Fetal pathology and social obstetrics ; 7. Arguments from medical history and demography ; 8. Induced abortion and the fetus as patient: a continuing paradox ; Bibliography ; Index

Robert Woods was John Rankin Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He was the author of The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (2000) and Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past (2006). He edited the journal Population Studies and was a Fellow of the British Academy.

Death before birth is a wide-ranging and multi-faceted book...It is a challenging, informative and thought provoking study which will undoubtedly become required reading for students of historical and contemporary demography, epidemiology, reproductive health, the history of medicine, social history and women's history.

• Preface ; 1. Introduction to fetal health and mortality ; 2. Definitions, measurement, influences ; 3. The prospects for survival from conception to childhood ; 4. Fetal mortality in comparative perspective ; 5. Midwifery and fetal death ; 6. Fetal pathology and social obstetrics ; 7. Arguments from medical history and demography ; 8. Induced abortion and the fetus as patient: a continuing paradox ; Bibliography ; Index