Harman, Patricia

Summary: Recounts how the author learned to deliver babies and her experiences in rural communes, political activism, and urban counterculture in the 1970s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HAR

Harman, Patricia

Summary: Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women's health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia--a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes refuge. Patsy's memoir juxtaposes the tales of these women with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent and coping with personal challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARMAN, PATRICIA HAR

White, Arisa

Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAS

Summary: "These essays, from twenty-five extraordinary midwives, speak directly to what really matters to women: the right to have safe and satisfying births." -- P. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spirituality & Health Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.2 INTO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.2 SIM

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Simkins

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (this book, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (not included here, c2009). Together, this series 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco/HarperCollins 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Worth, Jennifer

Summary: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife (not included here, c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (not included here, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (this book, c2009). Together, this series 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco/HarperCollins 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WORTH, JENNIFER WOR

Worth, Jennifer

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WORTH WOR