Record #:

3813

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

An unlikely pairing on Hatteras Island in 1923 of an illiterate, self-taught midwife, Bathsheba Foster (\"Mis' Bashi\") and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate Blanche Nettleton Epler provides a picture of maternity care and the dangers women faced in childbirth a hundred years ago.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , High Season 1998, p20-23, il, por

Subject(s):

Outer Banks--History; Epler, Blanche Nettleton, 1864-1953; Foster, Bathsheba; Midwives--Outer Banks