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By Irvine Loudon. 622 pp. Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1993. $95. (Distributed in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, New York.) ISBN 0-19-822997-6.

On June 5, 1993, the front page of the Birmingham (Alabama) News reported the tragic case of a local woman who died in childbirth. A healthy single woman in her mid-20s, Sheila McFarland suddenly began to hemorrhage after the birth of her first child. Her family was summoned to her bedside, and an unmarried sister promised to care for her baby daughter. A few days later, despite the best efforts of medical science, the mother died.

That the death of a woman in childbirth would be front-page news in 1993 demonstrates the rarity of such deaths. Historically, however, deaths from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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