[Mobile ebook] In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida
♥ Debra Anne Susie ♥
| #2403202 in Books | Univ of Georgia Pr | 1988-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x6.50 x.75l, | File Name: 0820309508 | 272 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A story with a tragic end|By Alexandra Goldburt|This is one of the3 only two books on midwifery history that does not have pro-licensing bias (the other one is "Making Midwives Legal) by Raymond DeVries.
The book tells the story how the traditional African-American midwives of Florida were unjustly slandered, and eventually eliminated, and how midwifery licensing wa|||This is a sensitively written and beautifully produced book which is based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants and the women they served. (SAGE Race Relations Abstract)
|Susie's well-written account presents a sympathetic picture
Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade―her principles, traditions, and skills―and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice.
The rural South was one of the last strongholds of the traditional "granny" midwife. Whether she came by her trade through individual choice or inherited a practice from an ...
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