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Mander, R, Fleming, V and Marshall, RK (2018) Maternal death: Scotland's enlightenment. International Journal of Childbirth, 8 (2). ISSN 2156-5287
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Abstract
The historical literature on maternal death gives little attention to the problem in Scotland. Data in a popular, yet serious, national publication for 1739-1772 suggest that there was some public interest in the problem of maternal mortality. This interest may have been associated with the democratization of many forms of knowledge, central to the Scottish Enlightenment. The publication of these data is linked to the little-known, but ground-breaking, work of Alexander Gordon on puerperal fever in Aberdeen, which long predated the study by Ignaz Semmelweis. This 18th-century publication is compared with the popular media of the 21st century. © 2018 Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Journal of Childbirth. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2156-5287.8.2.70 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1110 Nursing, 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Public Health Institute |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2020 12:31 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2020 12:31 |
| DOI or Identification number: | 10.1891/2156-5287.8.2.70 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13784 |
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