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1 online resource (306 pages). |
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text file |
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Documentary arts and culture
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Documentary arts and culture.
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| Summary |
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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013.
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Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013. |
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Midwives -- North Carolina -- Biography.
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Midwives. |
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North Carolina. |
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Biographies.
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Midwifery -- North Carolina -- History.
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Midwifery. |
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History. |
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North Carolina. |
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Electronic books.
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Popular Work.
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Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yarger, Lisa. Lovie. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] 9781469630052 1469630052 (DLC) 2016019437 (OCoLC)945745464 |
| ISBN |
1469630079 (electronic book) |
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9781469630076 (electronic book) |
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1469630052 |
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9781469630052 |
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