Listen to me good
Subtitle: the life story of an Alabama midwife
By: Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes.
Contributors: Holmes, Linda Janet, 1949-
Series: Women and health series; Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Smith, Margaret Charles, 1906-; African American midwives -- Alabama -- Eutaw -- Biography.; Midwifery -- Alabama -- Eutaw -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions, pharmacopeia, and spiritual attitudes that influenced her practice.

Believed to be the oldest living (though retired) traditional African American midwife in Alabama, Smith is one of the few who can recount old-time birthing ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.
"A Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize winner"
"A sandstone book"--p. [i].