Abigail Bloomer is the daughter of the proprietors of Sapiens Publishing and she worked with them in medical publishing for a number of years, with a special focus on women's health issues. Very sadly she died from breast cancer in 2001 at the age of 31 – and she is greatly missed. Sapiens Publishing have sponsored A Textbook of Postpartum Hemorrhage, and the other derivative publications listed here, in loving memory of her.