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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Debra Anne SusiePublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9780820333885ISBN 10: 0820333883 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 28 February 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThis 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 of the demise of midwifery in Florida. Through the use of oral interviews-eight of which are transcribed in the work-she enlivens the text with the memories of these women. --Georgia Historical Quarterly Susie has done her historical homework, providing adequately detailed (at least for this sociologist) comparisons between counties and over time of legal, medical, and administrative data on the midwife and her client. . . . Susie's book represents a valuable glimpse of a vanishing world. --Journal of American History 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 has done her historical homework, providing adequately detailed (at least for this sociologist) comparisons between counties and over time of legal, medical, and administrative data on the midwife and her client. . . . Susie's book represents a valuable glimpse of a vanishing world. --Journal of American History Susie's well-written account presents a sympathetic picture of the demise of midwifery in Florida. Through the use of oral interviews-eight of which are transcribed in the work-she enlivens the text with the memories of these women. --Georgia Historical Quarterly 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 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 has done her historical homework, providing adequately detailed (at least for this sociologist) comparisons between counties and over time of legal, medical, and administrative data on the midwife and her client. . . . Susie's book represents a valuable glimpse of a vanishing world. --Journal of American History Susie's well-written account presents a sympathetic picture of the demise of midwifery in Florida. Through the use of oral interviews-eight of which are transcribed in the work-she enlivens the text with the memories of these women. --Georgia Historical Quarterly Author InformationDEBRA ANNE SUSIE holds a doctorate in humanities and works with Florida Impact, a social and economic justice group. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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