Scottish Midwives: Flashback No. 12 by Lindsay Reid

Scottish Midwives: Flashback No. 12 by Lindsay Reid

There have always been midwives in Scotland although their history has been largely undocumented. The Midwives (Scotland) Act was passed in 1915 and regularised midwifery training and practice. Before this, although some women went through a form of training in midwifery, many women came to the profession by chance or through financial necessity. After the Act, the howdies of old gradually gave way to midwives, enrolled by the new Central Midwives' Board for Scotland. In this oral history, individuals remember an incident, a decade, a career, a lifetime, tracing the development of midwifery in Scotland in the twentieth century from their very own personal perspectives.

Born and brought up in Banchory, Kincardineshire, Lindsay Reid has been a midwife, midwife teacher and research assistant with the Midwifery Research Group at the University of Glasgow. She is now a freelance writer and is pursuing a PH.D. at the University of Glasgow in the development of midwifery practice in Scotland from 1916 to 1983.

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ISBN 13	9781862321601
ISBN 10	1862321604
Title	Scottish Midwives: Flashback No. 12
Author	Lindsay Reid
Series	Flashbacks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2000-11-21
Number of pages	208
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