Sciences
Childbirth | Midwives | Midwifery
Books
- Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. 2009. African American Midwifery in the South Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Geiger, Susan, Nakanyike Musisi, and Jean Marie Allman. 2002. Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Luke, Jenny M. 2018. Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
- Reid, Lindsay. 2007. Midwifery: Freedom to Practise?: An International Exploration of Midwifery Practice. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
- Oparah, Julia Chinyere, and Alicia D. Bonaparte. 2016. Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth. London: Routledge.
- Wilkie, Laurie A. 2012. The Archaeology of Mothering: an African-American Midwife's Tale. Routledge.
Videos Cont.
Videos Cont.
- Safe delivery: traditional birth attendants in Liberia
- TEDxRC2 – Edna Adan Ismail – If We Can Train Midwives in Somaliland, Everyone Can!
- UBT: Midwive’s Stories from Africa.mov
- Unsung Heroes: Elizabeth Lomeo is a traditional midwife in Turkana county
- WIDE ANGLE | Birth of a Surgeon | PBS
Six Part Video
Websites
- Anitra Ellerby-Brown, MS, RN, CNM, Trickera Sims, MSPH, RN, and Mavis Schorn, PhD, RN, CNM, “African American Nurse-Midwives: Continuing the Legacy,” Vanderbilt University.
- “Cesarean Section - A Brief History,” - U.S. National Library of Medicine
- “Cesarean Section - A Brief History Part 2,” - U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Felkin, R. W. “Notes on Labour in Central Africa,” Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, April 1884, pages 922 930.
- Midwife Monday: Maude Callen - Two Leaves Same Tree