Published January, 2015
By Patricia Kennedy and Naonori Kodate
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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This book is the first comprehensive international overview of maternity services. Drawing on concepts of risk and social citizenship, it explores the relationship between welfare regimes and health policy by comparing and contrasting provision for childbearing women.

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Published January, 2015
By Annamma Jacob
Publisher: Jaypee Medical (Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers)
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Published December, 2014
By Alison Pooler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Published December, 2014
By Avner Giladi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. It takes a broad historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period.

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Published December, 2014
By Nandor Acs, Ferenc G. Banhidy and Andrew E. Czeizel
Publisher: Springer
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The major objective of our studies in the last decade was a systematic analysis of maternal diseases during pregnancy to reveal their possible adverse effects on birth outcomes.

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Published December, 2014
By Antonio L. Borrelli, Domenico Arduini, Antonio Cardone and Valerio Ventruto
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Published December, 2014
By Bob Gates and Kay Mafuba
Publisher: Elsevier (Apple Academic Press Inc.)
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Published December, 2014
By James T. Tweedy, MS, CHSP, CPSO, CHEP, and James T. Tweedy
Publisher: Elsevier (Apple Academic Press Inc.)
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Published December, 2014
By Isabel Varela-Nieto and Julie Ann Chowen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I is a widely expressed growth factor with diverse effects on many tissues throughout development and in adult life.

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Published December, 2014
By Hilary Marland and Anne Marie Rafferty
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Questioning many conventional historical assumptions, this text seeks to provide a better understanding of the effect on midwives of the unprecedented progress of science, particularly obstetric science in the 20th century.

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