
Call the Midwife
A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Format: Book
Description: 340 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Call the Midwife -- Nonnatus House -- Morning Visits -- Chummy -- Molly -- The Bicycle -- Antenatal Clinic -- Rickets -- Eclampsia -- Fred -- A Christmas Baby -- A Breech Delivery -- Jimmy -- Len & Concita Warren -- Sister Monica Joan -- Mary -- Zakir -- Cable Street -- Cafe Life -- Flight -- Sister Evangelina -- Mrs Jenkins -- Rosie -- The Workhouse -- The Bottom Dropped Out of Pigs -- Of Mixed Descent I -- Of Mixed Descent II -- Of Mixed Descent III -- The Luncheon Party -- Smog -- The Flying Squad -- A Premature Baby -- Old, Old Age -- In the Beginning.
Subjects:
Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011.
Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011.
Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780143123255
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Worth, Jennifer | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Worth, Jennifer | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Worth, Jennifer | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Worth, Jennifer | Northeast | Biography | In |
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"Previously published as The midwife."
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.