A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
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TextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1990Distributor: New York : Distributed by Random House Edition: First editionDescription: x, 444 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394568443
- 9780394568447
- Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812
- Midwives -- Maine -- Augusta -- Biography
- Midwives -- Maine -- Hallowell -- Biography
- Midwives -- Maine -- Augusta -- Biography
- Midwifery
- Hallowell (Me.) -- Biography
- Augusta (Me.) -- Biography
- Kennebec River Valley (Me.) -- Social life and customs
- Hallowell (Me.) -- Biography
- Augusta (Me.) -- Biography
- 618.20092 22
- F29.H15 U47 1990
- Pulitzer Prize, History, 1991.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | South Campus South Campus Main Collection | 618.20092 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A056500B |
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| 618.20087 ROG The disabled woman's guide to pregnancy and birth / | 618.2009 RAD Milestones in midwifery / | 618.2009 RHO A short history of clinical midwifery : the development of ideas in the professional management of childbirth / | 618.20092 BAL A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 / | 618.20092 BEN Doctor Agnes Bennett / | 618.20092 WOR Call the midwife / | 618.200931 DON Save the midwife / |
Cover title: Martha Ballard, her diary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-411) and index.
Introduction: a great sea A going -- August 1787: Exceeding dangeroulsly ill -- September 1799: warpt a piece -- October 1789: Mrs Foster has sworn a Rape on a number of men -- November 1792: Matrimonial writes -- December 1797: Birth 50. Birth 51 -- January 1796: find my house up in arms -- February 1801: A desection performed -- March 1804: what a scean had I to go at Evening -- April 1806: Polly Purington here -- May 1809: Workt in my gardin -- Epilogue -- Appendix: medicinal ingredients mentioned in Martha Ballard's diary.
"Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.From the Trade Paperback edition."--Publisher description.
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1991.
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