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Book Synopsis African American Midwifery in the South by : Gertrude Jacinta FRASER
Download or read book African American Midwifery in the South written by Gertrude Jacinta FRASER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them. In the writings and programs produced by these physicians and public health officials, Fraser finds a universe of ideas about race, gender, the relationship of medicine to society, and the status of the South in the national political and social economies. Fraser also studies this experience through dialogues of memory. She interviews members of a rural Virginia African American community that included not just retired midwives and their descendants, but anyone who lived through this transformation in medical care--especially the women who gave birth at home attended by a midwife. She compares these narrations to those in contemporary medical journals and public health materials, discovering contradictions and ambivalence: was the midwife a figure of shame or pride? How did one distance oneself from what was now considered superstitious or backward and at the same time acknowledge and show pride in the former unquestioned authority of these beliefs and practices? In an important contribution to African American studies and anthropology, African American Midwifery in the South brings new voices to the discourse on the hidden world of midwives and birthing.
Book Synopsis Memories of a Midwife by : Olivia May
Download or read book Memories of a Midwife written by Olivia May and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common questions that a midwife will receive in their career is "how many babies have you delivered?"This journal has been designed to allow a midwife to document the births they attend across their career. It contains the space to remember; the different baby names, the angel babies, the obstetric emergencies they've been involved in and allows them to recount their best stories. The journal provides a safe space for the thank you notes, cards, and photos they may receive from the women and families they care for. There is an annual CPD tracker, and an Australian and world map included for the midwives who have made travel an integral part of their career.This journal would make a beautiful gift for any midwife, whether they have years of experience, are about to enter their career, or for those who are about to pursue their studies.DISCLAIMER: It is advised that full names are not used in these records, to avoid confidentiality breaches. The journal holder is responsible for their own journaling content.
Book Synopsis Call The Midwife by : Jennifer Worth
Download or read book Call The Midwife written by Jennifer Worth and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series. Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction. Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s, Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained. Funny, disturbing and incredibly moving, Jennifer's stories bring to life the colourful world of the East End in the 1950s.
Download or read book Midwife Memories written by Renee Popova and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renee Popova has been a direct-entry midwife serving the Amish and "English" for over 30 years. Midwife Memories is her homage to all of the families she has attended and the babies she has caught. Midwife Memories brings the reader into the lives of women birthing their babies and sharing their stories. Although Renee is not Amish, she was welcomed into the community and became a vital member who participated in family activities and minor medical fixes along with bringing babies into the family. Outside the Amish world, everyone is known as "English" and she assisted these birthing women at home and in the hospital. Midwife Memories recalls how Renee felt the call to midwifery and set about getting the training and skills to birth babies. From childbirth education to doula training to apprenticeship, read about the challenges and adventures that finally enabled her to serve as a midwife. The reader will get a glimpse inside Amish culture and begin to understand their beliefs and customs. You will chuckle at the renegade Amish man, envision Renee climbing onto a horse from the hood of her car in order to get to the laboring mother, and being asked to attend a pregnant goat. Celebrate with Renee when she returns to her prenatal duties after a broken leg only to find the Amish families held a welcome back shower for her. Intuition, knowledge and skill enabled Renee to work with "English" women in hospital settings and at home births. Most births are uncomplicated and natural but occasionally labor takes a turn and sometimes becomes a little more challenging. The reader will find themselves engrossed in the stories of women who chose to birth their babies in a variety of places and circumstances. Midwife Memories is chock full of information regarding the types of childbirth education, differing birth philosophies and the role of the doula. Useful material abounds for anyone interested in learning more about childbirth and all the options available.
Book Synopsis Memories of a Midwife by : Olivia May
Download or read book Memories of a Midwife written by Olivia May and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common questions that a midwife will receive in their career is "how many babies have you delivered?"This journal has been designed to allow a midwife to document the births they attend across their career. It contains the space to remember; the different baby names, the angel babies, the obstetric emergencies they've been involved in and allows them to recount their best stories. The journal provides a safe space for the thank you notes, cards, and photos they may receive from the women and families they care for. There is an annual CPD tracker, and an Australian and world map included for the midwives who have made travel an integral part of their career.This journal would make a beautiful gift for any midwife, whether they have years of experience, are about to enter their career, or for those who are about to pursue their studies.DISCLAIMER: It is advised that full names are not used in these records, to avoid confidentiality breaches. The journal holder is responsible for their own journaling content.
Book Synopsis Mother and Child Were Saved by : Catharina Geertruida Schrader
Download or read book Mother and Child Were Saved written by Catharina Geertruida Schrader and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very short book, "Mother and Child were Saved" features a translation of the memoirs that Frisian midwife, Catharina Schrader had written in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries. These were extracted from her notes that documented almost 3000 deliveries over the course of Schrader's career as a midwife. The memoir, exhibited around 100 of the most complicated that Schrader had helped with. These included both mother and child who had died, some where only the child died, some where one of a set of multiples lived, some where both lived happily. Though the essays and the introduction focus on the medical aspects of Schrader's career. The social aspect as a female midwife in a period of medicalized transition cannot be overlooked. One can see the burgeoning reticence emanate even from Schrader herself towards midwives who were incompetent and merely "tortured" their patients. However, this Memoir is integral for any study of midwifery in Europe during the early modern period. While the introductory essays could have been expanded to consider the social consequences of gender and midwifery, the fact that the Memoirs have been translated from their mix of three languages (Dutch, German and Frisian) into one ubiquitous language: English, gives the modern historian greater access to a primary source that details the travails and tribulations that women faced during this period that did not have the same kind of prenatal care that women see today. Ultimately, women faced with every birth, the possibility that they could die, and this memoir shows that there was a marked response to do anything they could to prevent that on the part of midwives and other obstetrical practitioners during this period. Regardless with the lack of exploration into the issues surrounding gender or the views of conception or any other number of paths that the essayists at the beginning could have explored, this work should be read by any historian that is considering gender in the early modern period.
Book Synopsis The Midwife Trilogy by : Jennifer Worth
Download or read book The Midwife Trilogy written by Jennifer Worth and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus edition of Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly support to help the inhabitants through the harsh econonic climate. The book also enables readers to follow Jennifer's personal story, as she discovers the amazing resilience of a population still bearing the scars of war, and the vibrant community of nuns with whom she lives and who teach her the skills of midwifery. In stories that are funny, disturbing and moving in equal measure, we meet prostitutes and abortionists, bigamists and mischievous nuns, and see Jennifer earn the confidence of people whose lives are often stranger than fiction.
Author :Peggy Vincent Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781539337232 Total Pages :266 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Midwife written by Peggy Vincent and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIDWIFE: A JOURNEY, the second book in Peggy Vincent's Memoirs of an Urban Midwife trilogy, focuses exclusively on the unique freedoms of home births. Set in Berkeley and Oakland in the ethnically diverse San Francisco Bay Area of California, the book is filled with unique characters and local color, balanced by midwifery knowledge and experience. Narrated by a midwife determined to "tell it like it is," and written with humor, tolerance, and occasional bemusement, MIDWIFE: A JOURNEY informs and entertains readers through the art of compelling storytelling.
Book Synopsis Call the Midwife by : Jennifer Worth
Download or read book Call the Midwife written by Jennifer Worth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. An unfortgettable story of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the strength of remarkable and inspiring women, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series, which will soon return for its sixth season.
Book Synopsis The Midwife's Journal by : Bonnie U. Gruenberg
Download or read book The Midwife's Journal written by Bonnie U. Gruenberg and published by Synclitic Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midwife's Journal is a creative space in which to record not only essential birth statistics, but also impressions, reflections and telling details that might otherwise be lost. Midwives, physicians, doulas, nurses, and other childbirth professionals will appreciate this unique organizer. This 96-page hardbound volume is durable enough to be carried in a birth bag and subjected to the rigors of daily use. Ample, logical forms provide space for logging 100 vaginal deliveries and 20 cesareans, with abundant room for stories, memories, and keepsakes. A unique do-it-yourself index allows the midwife to easily compile statistics and to find complications and other significant events. A section for contacts and four pages of tables and graphs help the busy professional keep a great deal of useful information at her fingertips. And the author's inspiring pencil drawings celebrate women and children, birth and renewal, and the passage of seasons. Childbirth is a transition for professional and client alike. The Midwife's Journal bears lasting witness to the trials and triumphs encountered in every birth and honors the eternal cycle of life.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Midwife by : Lisbeth Burger
Download or read book Memoirs of a Midwife written by Lisbeth Burger and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born for Life written by Julie Watson and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could prepare Julie for the experience of living and working in the heart of Africa. This memoir takes you on Julie's journey to Kalene Mission Hospital in Zambia, where she worked as a midwife caring for African women and their babies. It is a story of joy and heartbreak, of courage and perseverance and an extraordinary adventure.
Book Synopsis Midwife: A Calling by : Peggy Vincent
Download or read book Midwife: A Calling written by Peggy Vincent and published by Memoirs of an Urban Midwife. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of BABY CATCHER. When Peggy Vincent first found herself holding a naked baby in her bare hands as a student nurse in 1962, she never dreamed the path her life would take as a result of that accidental catch. Countless births followed. Hippies, lawyers, teenagers, welfare moms, marijuana growers, smugglers, spiritualists, Orthodox Jews, neurologists, Christian Scientists, Muslims, the rich and the poor...this list scratches only the surface of her diverse clientele. Told with warmth, humor, and sincerity, these tales will resonate with all those who remain as enchanted as Peggy by the unique art of giving birth.
Book Synopsis The Midwife of Venice by : Roberta Rich
Download or read book The Midwife of Venice written by Roberta Rich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.
Download or read book The Midwife written by Tricia Cresswell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and moving debut, The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell is perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Binding. 1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But she can remember how to help a woman in labour, how to expertly dress a wound and can speak fluent French. With the odds against her – a penniless single woman – she starts to build her life from scratch, using her skills to help other woman around her. She finds a happy place in the world. Until tragedy strikes, and she must run for her life. In London, Dr Borthwick lives a solitary life working as an accoucheur together with his midwife, Mrs Bates, dealing with mothers and babies in both the elegant homes of high society, and alongside a young widow, Eleanor Johnson, volunteering in the slums of the Devil’s Acre. His professional reputation is spotless and he keeps his private life just as clean, isolating himself from any new acquaintances. He is harbouring a dark secret from his past, one that threatens to spill over everything . . .
Book Synopsis Memories of a Black Lay Midwife from Northern Neck Virginia by : Claudine Curry Smith
Download or read book Memories of a Black Lay Midwife from Northern Neck Virginia written by Claudine Curry Smith and published by Tucker Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midwives written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first published. A selection of Oprah's original Book Club that has sold more than two million copies. On an icy winter night in an isolated house in rural Vermont, a seasoned midwife named Sibyl Danforth takes desperate measures to save a baby’s life. She performs an emergency cesarean section on a mother she believes has died of stroke. But what if—as Sibyl's assistant later charges—the patient wasn't already dead? The ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt, forcing Sibyl to face the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience. Exploring the complex and emotional decisions surrounding childbirth, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do. Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!
