Abstract
A minute proportion of BMJ readers will be delivering babies these days, but most will vividly remember doing so as students. The first birth I ever saw caused me to burst into tears, much to the surprise of the registrar giving a running commentary. The moment of birth is so rich with possibilities. Obstetrics is a specialty central to medicine but is wafted hither and thither by scientific, social, political, and ethical trends—as this issue shows. Andrew Shennan begins his review of recent developments in obstetrics by discussing one of its most difficult challenges—pre-eclampsia …
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