OT- Books

[Lise]

...and for a while, midwifes not being able to help birth babies!).

Midwives' practice is still interfered with in myriad ways around the world, not to mention right here at home, and sometimes downright outlawed. Sigh. Que sigue la lucha. (the fight goes on)

[Trek420]

In my backpack now The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It was reccomended by my sister, fast moving, well written, set in Chicago, great artists, incredible history and horrific violence.

[RoadRaven]

Midwives' practice is still interfered with in myriad ways around the world, not to mention right here at home, and sometimes downright outlawed. Sigh. Que sigue la lucha. (the fight goes on)

I know...
There are still many restrictions around midwifery here... but I remember reading a history of midwifery (when i was contemplating training to be one) and reading how for a while there in the post-middle ages, midwives sometimes tied womens legs together -so great was their fear that the woman would give birth before the (male) doctor got there... awful!

I think you'd find the book I recommended (Rountree's) interesting, Lise

[Deanna]

I'm more of a fiction fan, but there are a few non-fiction that stick out for me:

Rain of Gold, by Victor Villasenor. The biography of his grandparents and a great read about immigrants setting roots in America. This is one I've recommended over and over.

Just about anything by Bill Bryson & Hunter Thompson

The Shirley Letters by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a collection of articles written as letters from a woman in the California Gold Mines. If you've spent time in the Feather River/Plumas County area you'll enjoy it even more.