Bringing Life To Aberdeen

From the medieval to the modern, this book chronicles the development of midwifery and maternity services since their inception in Aberdeen, preserving the living legacy of the individuals and institutions that have served generations of mothers and babies. Drawing on manuscripts, journals and maps, accounts of pivotal places, people and services feature alongside the personal and touching recollections of both staff and patients. There have been many important contributions made to obstetrics and midwifery by individuals working in Aberdeen in bygone days.Some have been underserved by the recognition and acclaim afforded them, and this book redresses such shortfalls, often for the first time; others are renowned for their influence, and we continue to celebrate this global impact. Chief amongst the latter is Professor Sir Dugald Baird, who gives his name to a new hospital dedicated to the care of women and their babies in North East Scotland: the Baird Family Hospital, built to replace the long-serving Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. Looking to the future as well as celebrating the past, all profits from Bringing Life to Aberdeen will be donated to the new neonatal unit in the Baird Family Hospital.