Call the midwife :
by Worth, Jennifer, frey50
Published by : Penguin Group USA, (New York :) , 2012 Physical details: 340 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN:9780143123255; 0143123254.
Subject(s):
Worth, Jennifer,
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1935-
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Midwives
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England
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London
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London (England)
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Social conditions
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20th century.
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Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.