Morgantown nurse midwife pens memoir
October 8, 2008 ·
A new book by a West Virginia nurse mid-wife puts faces and personalities to the medical profession and the people they treat. The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir was written by Patricia Harman of Morgantown.
A new book by a West Virginia nurse mid-wife puts faces and personalities to the medical profession and the people they treat.
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir was written by Patricia Harman of Morgantown.
She got her start as a lay mid-wife on the rural communes where she lived in the 1960's and 70's and went on to become a nurse-midwife on the faculty of Ohio State and West Virginia Universities. She manages a health care clinic with her husband Tom an OB-GYN. We spoke with her about her book.
The Blue Cotton Gown is published by Beacon Press of Boston, Massachusetts.