TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>A Woman of Firsts. The Midwife Who Built A Hospital And Changed The World</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 597 LP - 597 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X713309 VL - 70 IS - 701 AU - Sophie Rowlands Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/701/597.abstract N2 - Edna Adan Ismail Harper Collins, 2020, PB, 336pp, £9.99, 978-0008305383This is a fascinating autobiographical account of Edna Adan Ismail, a midwife from the East African nation of Somaliland. Edna was born in 1937 in Hargeisa, then part of British Somaliland. Daughter of an esteemed doctor, she spent much of her childhood helping her father out on the wards and quickly developed his passion for medicine and improving health care … ER -