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Table of Contents: “…This new, updated edition includes: definitions of terms that are consistent with those in the DSM-5 and the International Classification of Diseases; terms used by social work clinical practitioners, educators, administrators, researchers, advocates, and many others; names of social welfare organizations, government programs, and private foundations that social workers encounter; and a chronology of important historical events and pivotal figures in the development of social work and social welfare. …”

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Table of Contents: “…The Measurement Of Maternal Mortality -- The Measurement of Maternal Mortality -- Measuring Maternal Mortality as Total Maternal Deaths -- Measuring Maternal Mortality in Terms of Population -- The Maternal Mortality Rate -- Problems of Measuring Maternal Mortality -- Stillbirths and Multiple Births -- The Length of the Postnatal Period -- The Registration of Births and Deaths in England and Wales -- The Registration of Births and Deaths in other Countries -- Nosology and the International Classification of Diseases -- Associated Deaths -- Associated Deaths and Multiple Causes of Death -- The Proportion of Associated Deaths -- Associated Deaths and International Comparisons -- Hidden Maternal Deaths -- The Causes Of Maternal Mortality -- The Determinants of Maternal Mortality -- Standards of Living and Standards of Care -- The Problem of Poverty -- Puerperal Fever -- Puerperal Fever: Terminology and Fatality -- The Clinical Course of Puerperal Fever -- The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever -- Charles White of Manchester -- Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen -- Some other Accounts of the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever -- Oliver Wendell Holmes and Puerperal Fever -- Ignaz Semmelweis and Puerperal Fever -- The Neglect of Gordon, Holmes, and Semmelweis -- Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas -- The Bacteriology of Puerperal Fever -- Endogenous and Exogenous Infection -- The Importance of the Asymptomatic Carrier -- The Treatment of Puerperal Fever -- Toxaemia of Pregnancy and Eclampsia -- Early Ideas about the Nature of Toxaemia -- Treatment and Prevention -- Mortality from Toxaemia -- Obstetric Haemorrhage -- Post-partum Haemorrhage -- Ante-partum Haemorrhage -- Accidental Haemorrhage or Placental Abruption -- Ante-partum Haemorrhage: Placenta Praevia -- The Mortality from Haemorrhage -- Abortion -- Abortion in Britain -- Abortion in other Countries: Europe -- Abortion in the Soviet Union -- Abortion in the USA -- Social and Legal Aspects of Abortion -- Other Causes of Maternal Mortality -- Contracted Pelvis and Rickets -- Surgical Measures in Contracted Pelvis -- The incidence of the Rachitic Contracted Pelvis -- Puerperal Insanity, Puerperal Mania -- Maternal Mortality, Duration of Pregnancy, and Stillbirths -- Maternal Care And Maternal Mortality In Various Countries -- The Importance of International Comparisons -- Britain -- Maternal Mortality in Pre-Registration England -- Women's Perception of Maternal Mortality -- The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Man-Midwifery -- Maternal Care in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Who Delivered the Babies in the Nineteenth Century? …”