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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Documentary arts and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469630079 9781469630076 9781469630069 1469630060 |