Lovie :: the story of a Southern midwife and an unlikely friendship /

From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. This is a provoc...

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1. Verfasser: Yarger, Lisa (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Documentary arts and culture.
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Zusammenfassung:From 1950 until 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. This is a provocative chronicle of Shelton's life and work, which spanned enormous changes in midwifery and in the ways women give birth"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (306 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1469630079
9781469630076
9781469630069
1469630060

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