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Morgantown nurse midwife pens memoir

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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.

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