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Author Yarger, Lisa, author

Title Lovie : the story of a Southern midwife and an unlikely friendship / Lisa Yarger
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Series Documentary arts and culture
Documentary arts and culture.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013.
SUBJECT Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013
Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013
Shelton, Lovie Beard, 1925-2013 fast
Subject Midwives -- North Carolina -- Biography
Midwifery -- North Carolina -- History
Midwifery -- history
Nurse Midwives -- history
History, 20th Century
MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- History.
Midwifery
Midwives
SUBJECT North Carolina. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007042
North Carolina
Subject North Carolina
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1469630079
9781469630076
9781469630069
1469630060