The third revised edition of this textbook for medical students and midwives includes technological and laboratory advances since the last edition showing the role they play in establishing early, accurate diagnoses. Increased emphasis is placed on the implications of medical disorders in pregnancy and a new chapter covers fetal medicine.

This third edition has been extensively revised to reflect the modern practice of obstetrics and care of the newborn baby. More emphasis is given to the implications of medical disorders in pregnancy, and the means of managing them successfully. There is a new chapter on the rapidly expanding field of foetal medicine.