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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yarger, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Documentary arts and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I'm a legend down here!
  • A beginning
  • The house of freedom
  • That handmaiden business
  • The original Washington
  • Nurses on horseback
  • The fig tree
  • Babies and mamas
  • Connie Corey and Doris Wilson
  • Sister Carolina
  • Palm Sunday
  • Reunion
  • Joy and Kenny
  • A public health nurse-midwife
  • I'm doing this for Joy
  • Up to my neck in deliveries
  • Receiving
  • Birth stories
  • Waiting
  • You run into all sorts of things
  • Marshall
  • Walking a chalk line
  • Still waiting
  • Political showdown
  • Barbry Allen, a baby, the Medes, a prayer
  • A world of confusion and fog
  • The call
  • Labor
  • Pushing
  • Birth
  • It's a thing of relationship
  • Revelations
  • God dealt well with the midwives.