midwife | midwife
Nov.14.2011
Erin Curtiss is a midwife in Seattle. Haiti has a desperate for midwives. Women in Haiti are fifty times more likely to die during childbirth than women in America. Erin volunteered to go to Haiti to lend a hand. She was unprepared for what she discovered. Read her story on my Living in the...
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Jul.29.2009
My first book "EARTH BELOW, HEAVEN ABOVE" was a novel based on my experiences as a midwife in India, published by Scribners in 1975. I had written it in the first person, for verisimilitude, but used the novel form, making up people and events as a way of illustrating the polarities: life...
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