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Midwives : a novel
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The Resource Midwives : a novel
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Midwives : a novel
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
by Chris Bohjalian
Creator
  • Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-
Subject
  • Legal fiction (Literature)
  • Legal fiction (Literature)
  • Legal stories
  • Legal stories
  • Legal stories
  • Legal stories
  • Medical fiction
  • Medical fiction
  • Medical novels
  • Midwives
  • Midwives
  • Midwives -- Fiction
  • Trials
  • Trials -- Fiction
  • Vermont
  • Vermont -- Fiction
  • Fiction
Genre
  • Legal fiction (Literature)
  • Legal stories
  • Medical fiction
  • Medical novels
  • Fiction
Language
eng
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
Member of
  • Book Oprah's Club
Cataloging source
DLC
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3552.O495
LC item number
M5 1997
Literary form
fiction
Series statement
Book Oprah's Club

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