Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa.
Memoirs, Medicine and Nursing, History and Archaeology, Society and Social Sciences
Paperback
Joan Skinner
288 pages
H: 234mm W: 153mm