![Successful Cesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, Uganda. As observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879 from his article "Notes on Labour in Central Africa" published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, April 1884, pages 922-930. [Public Domain]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sankofaarchives.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sciences-Midwifes-Cover-TTWO.jpg?fit=725%2C329&ssl=1)
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