In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twenti...
Susie, Debra Anne![In the Way of Our Grandmothers: A Cultural View of Twentieth-Century Midwifery in Florida](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/538/5386456/CHSBZCOP035386456.jpg)
Based on the accounts of midwives, their descendants, and the women they served, In the Way of Our Grandmothers tells of the midwife's trade--her principles, traditions, and skills--and of the competing medical profession's successful program to systematically destroy the practice.The rural South was one of the last strongholds of the traditional granny midwife. Whether she came by her trade through individual choice or inherited a practice fr...