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1. Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)

   International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

   Edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, Hilary Marland

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Midwives, Society and Childbirth

   Debates and Controversies in the Modern Period

   Edited by Hilary Marland, Anne Marie Rafferty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge
3. Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe

   Edited by Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, Hans de Waardt

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain,...

   Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge
4. The Art of Midwifery

   Early Modern Midwives in Europe

   Edited by Hilary Marland

   The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence,...

   Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge