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SUMMARY:Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective - 
 Dr Alice Reid (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20131024T160000Z
DTEND:20131024T173000Z
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CONTACT:Sian Pooley
DESCRIPTION:Death in childbirth is one of the main causes of death to wome
 n aged 20 to 45: this is true today and has been the case throughout histo
 ry at times when other causes of death to adult women were also much highe
 r. This paper will provide an overview of maternal mortality (defined as t
 he risk of death to women associated with pregnancy or childbirth) since 1
 650 with consideration of the main perplexing questions relating to the to
 pic: what can explain the unusual and persistent geographical patterns in 
 British maternal mortality? And why did maternal mortality not decline wit
 h the rest of adult mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth c
 enturies?
LOCATION:Graham Storey Room\, Trinity Hall
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