Irvine Loudon

Biographic Data

ID1130901
NAMEIrvine Loudon
GIVEN NAMESIrvine
FAMILY NAMELoudon
SIGNATURELOUDON I
AFFILIATIONSGreen University of Bangladesh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • ‘The Vile Race of Quacks with which this Country is Infested’

    Irvine LoudonCHAPTERMedical Fringe and Medical…2018

    The outstanding characteristics of the pre-Victorian irregulars, as the Hull collection of pamphlets shows, were their variety, individuality and salesmanship. In the early years of the century, however, the regular practitioners classified the irregulars into four clear groups—the druggists, the midwives, the itinerants and the local or ‘stationary’ irregulars. The plan for medical reform devised by Edward Harrison grew directly from his researc…

  • The History of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Vol. 1

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Andrew Hull and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch. The History of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Vol. 2: The Shaping of the Medical Profession, 1858-1999. London: Hambledon Press, 1999. xxxi + 288 pp. Ill. $45.00

  • What a Blessing She Had Chloroform

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Historically and currently, there are few aspects of health so contentious, so surrounded by emotion, as the management of childbirth in general, and of obstetric anesthesia in particular. Donald Caton, an obstetric anesthesiologist, has been well aware of this when writing his excellent account of the subject from 1800 to the present. The story of obstetric anesthesia includes many well-known names and methods, such as James Young Simpson and ch…

  • The Measurement of Maternal Mortality

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEJournal of the History of…1999Cited by: 3

    Journal Article The Measurement of Maternal Mortality Get access IRVINE LOUDON IRVINE LOUDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 312–329, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/54.2.312 Published: 01 April 1999

  • Old and Rare Books on Materia Medica in the Library of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEJournal of the History of…1998

    Old and Rare Books on Materia Medica in the Library of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society Get access Ove Hagelin . Stockholm , Swedish Pharmaceutical Society Press , 1997 . ISBN 92-86274-68-6 . 224 pp., 17 col. illus., 110 b. & w. illus. Skr.625. Irvine Loudon Irvine Loudon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118–119, https://doi.org/10.109…

  • Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England . Mary J. Dobson

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEIsis1998

  • Making of man-midwifery

    Irvine LoudonARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    The Making of Man-Midwifery Irvine Loudon (bio) Adrian Wilson. The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xii + 239 pp. Ill. $35.00. Before 1740, give or take a few years, midwifery in England was still, as it had been for centuries, almost entirely a female affair attended by the midwife, and by friends and neighbors, with the exclusion of men. With few exceptions, medical practition…

  • Death in Childbirth

    Irvine LoudonBOOKDeath in childbirth1992

    This is an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality. Since about 1800, different countries have developed quite different systems of maternal care, and this book provides an analysis, grounded in statistics, of the evolution and the effectiveness of those systems in various countries.

  • On Maternal and Infant Mortality 1900-1960

    Irvine LoudonARTICLESocial History of Medicine1991Cited by: 13

    Journal Article On Maternal and Infant Mortality 1900–1960 Get access IRVINE LOUDON IRVINE LOUDON *Green College, Oxford OX2 6HG. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 1, April 1991, Pages 29–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/4.1.29 Published: 01 April 1991

  • Maternal Mortality

    Irvine LoudonARTICLESocial History of Medicine1988Cited by: 13

    Journal Article Maternal Mortality: 1880–1950. Some Regional and International Comparisons Get access IRVINE LOUDON IRVINE LOUDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 1988, Pages 183–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/1.2.183 Published: 01 August 1988