Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece

"...a...wide-ranging and general account, using written and visual evidence to focus, above all, on women as child-bearers...she offers useful analyses (with some translations) of those Hippocratic works which present case-histories of female patients (such as the "Epidemics"), and makes a realistic assessment of the dangers of puerpal fever, malaria and perhaps tuberculosis at childbirth."Demand, Nancy is the author of 'Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece', published 0017 under ISBN 9780801880537 and ISBN 080188053X.