Patricia Harman
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Patricia Harman has spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and a community hospital birthing center. She became an RN as the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In 1985 she began her vis mere training at the University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery. She has been a nurse-midwife on the faculty of The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University and most recently West Virginia University. She also spent several years in private practice, before the rising costs of liability insurance for Obstetrics caused her to give up deliveries. The change in life style afforded Harman the free time to pursue writing. She has written two memoirs; Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey, and The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir. She has also written several novels; The Midwife of Hope River and The Reluctant Midwife, which comprise the Hope River Series. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1943-11-01
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
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The Runaway Midwife: A Novel af Patricia Harman
Gentle pleasant read - enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
I absolutely LOVED Patricia Harman's novel, THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER (a must read!) and I really enjoyed this book (non-fiction) about a year or more in her life as a midwife. About the only thing I didn't care for was the splattering of TMI about her personal sex life. Otherwise, great stories about many of her patients, very interesting!
Probably should give it 5 stars as I really enjoyed it (I'm picky with my 5 stars!) Very interesting to read all the midwife information from years ago, had a hard time putting the book down. Oh, what the heck, I'm changing it to 5 stars!
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I received this book as part of Early Reviewers in 2011. I loved it so much and it dovetailed with my interests and experiences so well I promptly found myself unable to write about it. My notes on the book include things such as “If you’ve ever followed a pensive wild man into the woods” and “Memoirs on a bohemian life lived”.
I’m younger than the author and no longer working in a healthcare space at this moment but the emotional impact of the experiences endure. This book is the beauty of midwifery. These are the memories of someone who has spent their lives caring about others. Which some could say was the spirit of the time of the 70’s. But, also, there are the timeless values of women and the beauty of life making.
As a person who has also had a series of different relationships with others as well as my own “failed” marriages I also understand what it is to walk a piece of life with someone, float apart, float back together, hold space. Something that is also seen in this book. This is an intimate beautiful book about caring and what it is to be a midwife with a window into one's private pensive space over a longer arc of life.… (mere)
I’m younger than the author and no longer working in a healthcare space at this moment but the emotional impact of the experiences endure. This book is the beauty of midwifery. These are the memories of someone who has spent their lives caring about others. Which some could say was the spirit of the time of the 70’s. But, also, there are the timeless values of women and the beauty of life making.
As a person who has also had a series of different relationships with others as well as my own “failed” marriages I also understand what it is to walk a piece of life with someone, float apart, float back together, hold space. Something that is also seen in this book. This is an intimate beautiful book about caring and what it is to be a midwife with a window into one's private pensive space over a longer arc of life.… (mere)
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- Værker
- 13
- Medlemmer
- 1,148
- Popularitet
- #22,370
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 144
- ISBN
- 80
- Sprog
- 5
