Includes index

Contents: Obstetrics history taking and examination -- Modern maternity care -- Physiological changes in pregnancy -- Normal fetal development and growth -- Antenatal care -- Antenatal imaging and assessment of fetal well-being -- Prenatal diagnosis -- Antenatal obstetric complications -- Twins and higher multiple gestations -- Pre-eclampsia and other disorders of placentation -- Late miscarriage and early birth -- Medical diseases complicating pregnancy -- Perinatal infections -- Labour -- Operative intervention in obstetrics -- Obstetric emergencies -- The Puerperium -- Psychiatric disorders and the puerperium -- Neonatology -- Ethical and medicolegal issues in obstetric practice.