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 |
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.