Called to practice : African American "grannies", midwives, & health reform
From Wikivideos
Source: collections.nlm.nih.gov
Video source record: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm%3Anlmuid-101527391-vid
0:00 / --:--
Player mode uses your custom Wikivideos controls.
Summary
| Description | Introduced by Dr. Elizabeth Fee, chief, History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, Sheena Morrison discusses the training of African American midwives in the rural south. Prior to the 1920s, most African American midwives in the South became midwives by apprenticeship (usually to a familial relation), or because they believed they had a spiritual calling to do so. After the Sheppard-Towner Act was passed in 1921 the only way to become a midwife was increasingly through recruitment to one of the state-sponsored midwifery training programs by a public health nurse. From the 1920s through the 1960s this next generation of midwives continued the tradition of their "granny" predecessors with the added benefit of scientific medical knowledge. Drawn mainly from NLM's American College of Midwives Collection, this presentation tells the story of "granny" midwives and the state and local training programs that educated them and succeeding generations. A clip from the film "All My Ba |
|---|---|
| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Morrison, Sheena., National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Licensing
Public Domain
Attribution: Morrison, Sheena., National Library of Medicine (U.S.)