by Lindsay Reid (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Tuckwell Press Ltd
Published: 21 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 1862321604
ISBN 13: 9781862321601