Article ID: CBB000770487

Mothers' Health and Babies' Weights: The Biology of Poverty at the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857--83 (2003)

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Birth weight remains a major focus of medical research into the relationship between pre-natal growth and life course health, and historians have used mean birth weight to assess women's standard of living. However, there are intrinsic difficulties in inferring maternal health and nutritional status from birth weight, and some of the known data sets produce puzzling results. One rich data set comes from the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital, 1857--83, and the article discusses the complex institutional, social, and economic causes that may underlie its apparently counter-intuitive anthropometric results. This data set reveals the biological effects differential social conditions can inflict, even within an otherwise affluent society

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Authors & Contributors
Schlumbohm, Jürgen
Nuttall, Alison
King, Steven
Vu, Anthony K.
Mangione, Salvatore
Brian Gurrin
Concepts
Medicine
Childbirth
Maternal health services
Hospitals and clinics
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Mothers and children
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Modern
Early modern
Places
Edinburgh
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
Uganda
England
Nigeria
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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