TY - BOOK AU - Worth,Jennifer AU - Coates,Terri TI - Call the midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times SN - 9780143123255 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Worth, Jennifer, KW - Midwives KW - England KW - London KW - Biography KW - Pregnant women KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Childbirth KW - Poverty KW - Poor KW - Nuns KW - London (England) KW - Social conditions KW - East End (London, England) N1 - 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) N2 - 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 ER -