Patricia HarmanPUBLISHED WORKSTHE BLUE COTTON GOWN: A MIDWIFE’S MEMOIR Beacon Press, Fall 2008 Nurse-midwife Patricia Harman runs a West Virginia women’s health care center with her OB/GYN husband. In a page-turning narrative nonfiction account of a year in the life of their practice, we see dozens of patients, including a student whose life leads her into an array of sexually transmitted diseases, a woman who can’t have an orgasm, another who wants to become a man, and a wife who flees a dangerous husband with her seven children. To all of them, Harman brings deep empathy and knowing care, empowered by her conviction that a midwife is a woman’s health companion for life. |
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