What is Midwifery:  Portrait of a Midwife

• 7-24-95 MILESTONES Contains a short obituary for granny midwife Onnie Lee Logan, who wrote her recollections down in Motherwit An Alabama Midwife's Story  (Currently out of print.)
• African American Midwifery in the South : Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory  This is an interesting new book detailing Virginia's eradication of traditional African-American midwives earlier this century.
• Faith Gibson's Biography Short, but a good look at a successful, modern midwife.
• [I Ain't No Midwife] A conversation with a grannie midwife.
• Jeannine Parvati Baker - Hands that heal birth Another successful, modern midwife.  She has written several books.
• Maria Jackson Conversation with a former slave and midwife.
• midwife "THE MIDWIFE LOG BOOK of 'GRANNY MOON'".  Records of the births that Eleanor Hinshaw Holloway Moon kept from 1864 to 1891.
• MidwifeNames98 A fun list of the word "midwife" in 17 different languages.  (This seemed like the page for it!)
• The Mother of Midwifery An article about Ina May Gaskin from Vegetarian Times.
• Time Life Photo Sight - W. Eugene Smith -Nurse Midwife A wonderful photograph.

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07/20/01