To
learn more about the history of midwifery:
A
Midwife’s Tale; Martha Ballard her Diary by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Motherwit:
an Alabama Midwife’s Story by Onnie Lee Logan
Listen
to Me Good: the Life Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles Smith
Birth
Matters: a Midwife’s Manifesta by Ina May Gaskin
A
Short History of Midwifery: http://midwifeinfo.com/articles/a-short-history-of-midwifery.
Fiction with Midwifery themes:
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Memoirs by Midwives:
A Midwife's Story by Penny
Armstrong and Sheryl Feldman
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent
Thinking of Becoming a Midwife?
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by
Ina May Gaskin
Heart and Hands; A Midwife's
Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
by Elizabeth Davis
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May
Gaskins
Varney’s Midwifery by Helen
Varney
Holistic Midwifery by Anne Frye
Understanding Diagnostic Test in
the Childbearing Year by Anne Frye
A Midwife’s Handbook by Constance
Sinclair
North American Registry of Midwives: http://narm.org/
American College of Nurse Midwives: http://www.midwife.org/
Movies
highlighting Midwives:
With
Women; a Documentary about Women, Midwives and Birth by
True Story Productions
The
Business of Being Born by Rickie Lake and Abby Epstein
More
Business of Being Born by Rickie Lake and Abby Epstein
Gentle
Birth Choices by Barbara Harper
I
am a Midwife, a movie trailer by the Midwives Alliance of North America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIl6VnjQjJ8
No comments:
Post a Comment