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Audio: Lessons from African-American Midwife Traditions

Commentator Kristal Brent Zook says there are a lot of lessons medical practitioners could learn from African-American midwife traditions. Zook is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School...

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Midwife at Auschwitz

Stanislawa was arrested in Lodz on February 18, 1943, with her daughter and two sons. The sons were sent to the labor camp at Mathausen and Gusen to work in the stone quarries. She and her daughter,...

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Uni publishes a history of midwifery education in Malta

The fourteenth century surgeon Guy de Chauliac acknowledged the debt he owed to his predecessors saying that “We are like children standing on the shoulders of a giant, for we can see all that the...

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Your Friendly 1936 Neighborhood OB Says ‘Don’t Kiss Your Baby’

http://www.unnecesarean.com/blog/2009/6/12/your-friendly-1936-neighborhood-ob-says-dont-kiss-your-baby.html Sometimes it feels like previous generations have no idea what the women of childbearing age...

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Going back in time: Twilight Sleep

In the past two weeks, I have seen several postings in various forums, blogs, and on birth related news sites about the show Mad Men which depicted the shows character Betty Draper giving birth to her...

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