Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coates.
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TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2012Description: 340 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780143123255; 0143123254Subject(s): Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011 | Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography | Pregnant women -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Childbirth -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Poverty -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Poor -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Nuns -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centurySummary: Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.
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First published in Great Britian as "Call the midwife" by Merton Books 2002 ; published as "The midwife" by Penguin Books in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-333, 340).
Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.
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