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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
female - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a University Professor at...
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Martha Ballard
female, deceased - Martha Moore Ballard (1734/1735 - 1812) was an American midwife, healer and diarist. Ballard was born in Oxford, Massachusetts to Elijah Moore and...
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Sheila Kitzinger
female - Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger MBE (born March 29, 1929 in Taunton, Somerset) is a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth...
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Jeannine Parvati Baker
female, deceased - Jeannine Parvati Baker (June 1, 1949 - December 1, 2005) was a midwife, herbalist, author, homebirth, freebirth and anti-circumcisi
on activist. She...
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Jane Sharp
female - Jane Sharp was a 17th century English midwife. In 1671 she published "The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered", becoming the...
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Phaenarete
male - Phaenarete, wife of Sophroniscus, was the mother of the Greek philosopher Socrates and his half-brother, Patrocles. (Since Sophroniscus had died...
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Mary Breckinridge
female, deceased (Hyden, ky, United States) - Mary Breckinridge (February 17, 1881-May 16, 1965) was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. She also was...
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Biddy Mason
female, deceased - Bridget ("Biddy") Mason (born August 15, 1818 in Hancock County, Georgia - died January 15, 1891 in Los Angeles, California) was an African...
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Sally Tracy
female - Sally Tracy PhD is an Australian, midwife, midwifery researcher, author and activist. Tracy is the Associate Professor of Midwifery Practice...
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Yvonne Cryns
female - Yvonne Cryns (b. 1951) is an American midwife and political activist. From 1991 to present, she has served as a traditional midwife in Illinois and...
