Set in the UK in the 1970s, Middenrammers follows the story of young Dr. Brian Davis and his efforts to adjust to his new job in a Yorkshire fishing town. The town's only hospital permits no contraceptive advice, or abortions. Dr. Davis and Woodie--the midwife he falls in love with--regularly come face to face with the terrible repercussions of these policies. Because they refuse to accept the attitude of the hospital administrators--who believe that the right thing to do is to restrict choice and deny reproductive options--the course of their lives is changed as much as those of the patients.
Told in graphic detail, the novel drives home the link between reproductive rights and social justice, while reminding us that a few decent people can make a world of difference.
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
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978-1-55481-318-6 (9781554813186)
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Dr. John Bart earned his medical degree from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in the UK in 1969, and lived and worked as a family physician in Toronto. He had degree in comparative vertebrate anatomy. He was an original member of the Toronto HIV Primary Care Physicians Group and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). He was married, with five children and seven grandchildren. Middenrammers was his first book.
