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Midwives

Bohjalian, Chris 1960- (Author).

Summary: The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.

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  • ISBN: 9780375706776 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0375706771 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780679771463
  • ISBN: 0679771468
  • Physical Description: 374 p. ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1998.

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General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harmony Bks., 1997.

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Subject: Vermont
Vermont Fiction
Trials
Midwifery
Trials Fiction
Midwifery Fiction
Genre: Fiction.

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