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Christine Morton

Christine Morton, PhD, is a sociologist with the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative at Stanford University studying quality improvement in maternal mortality and morbidity.

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A Fatal Delivery on ‘Downton Abbey’

The condition still claims the lives of 300 women a year, while 75,000 more experience ‘near misses,’ write Eleni Tsigas and Christine Morton.

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