Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1976 - 7/31/1976

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


A History of Lay Midwifery in Georgia Utilizing Taped Interviews with Retired Midwife

FAIN: FT-12988-76

Jan L. Handke
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To research the use of Midwives in Georgia. Interviewing midwives still living as a primary source for information on their history; discussing state certification description of prenatal and obstetrical care and relationships with other health care provides. Making taped interviews available as source material for other historians and social scientists.