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Medieval Madness
Students complete a critical reading of the novel "The Midwife's Apprentice." During their reading, students create several journal responses to the character's situation and transformation. Working with computers, students complete...
Historica Canada
History by the Minute: Midwife
As part of a video series, this clip dramatizes the importance of the midwife in Canadian history. Learn about the long history of these invaluable women, and their role in a new land. As time passed, women's hospitals and birthing rooms...
Other
Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online
This site invites viewers "to piece together the life and world of an "ordinary" person from the past." The site boasts thousands of original documents that include diaries, maps, letters, and court records of a midwife from...
Other
Public Art in Los Angeles: Biddy Mason's Place
Features part of an exhibit at the University of Southern California that provides a chronology of Biddy Mason's life.
Other
Auw St. Lawrence County Branch: Women of Courage
Learn what it means to have courage by examining the lives of women who "Were pioneers in their fields, which included education, medicine, art, politics, and music." This page includes biographies of several women including scientist...
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Midwife Checks Mother/twp
A news article(1997)about a Ethiopian Midwife. A midwife is a woman who helps other women give birth, in the absence of a doctor or because there is no doctor.
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Midwife Attends to Child/twp
A news article(1997)about a Ethiopian Midwife. A midwife is a woman who helps other women give birth, in the absence of a doctor or because there is no doctor.