Neal Halfon • Christopher B. Forrest
Richard M. Lerner • Elaine M. Faustman
Editors

2018

Prior to 1900, the health of mothers and children was considered a domestic concern. Childbirth was often supervised by untrained birth attendants such as family members; basic care of sick children was rudimentary and undeveloped, with the unfortunate but all-too-real expectation that some children would not survive into adulthood (Rosenfeld and Min 2009).