The Complete Call the Midwife Stories Jennifer Worth 4 Books Collection Collector's Gift-Edition (Shadows of the Workhouse, Farewell to the East End, Call the Midwife, Letters to the Midwife)

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The fifth series is set in 1961 and shows a patient with typhoid, the effects of thalidomide, the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the impact of strokes. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. I felt most poignantly the moments when: Frank and Peggy were separated without warning, when she held the banisters and cried all day until she fell asleep from exhaustion and the moment; when a destitute and hopeless Mrs.

But it was not until the beginning of the last century that midwifery as a profession came to be taken seriously. Apart from missing the first opportunity towards ending tuberculosis, further delays ensued even after Robert Koch isolated tuberculosis bacillus in 1882.

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. I found Jennifer's books both heart-warming and thought-provoking; they are hard to put down, and I felt compelled to learn more about the East End, the Docklands, nursing in the 1950s/60s, and indeed more about Jennifer herself. The book is set in Poplar, in the East End of London, where "Jenny Lee" (Worth’s maiden name) works as a midwife and district nurse, attached to a convent, Nonnatus House (a pseudonym for the Community of St. Childbirth has drifted away from being a natural event into a medical condition requiring medical treatment.

Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems. An agnostic, she little expected that she would eventually spend two and a half years with the sisters that would transform her life forever. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The first one is titled Rediscovering Birth and is authored by educator-cum-activist Sheila Kitzinger.However, her debut book, which is titled Eczema and Food Allergy, is nothing worth writing home about and is a pale shadow of her subsequent books. I have to say it is probably mainly a book for women as it deals with - as the title says -midwifery and therefore babies and births and medical complications as well as women's home lives in the '50s and '60s. My adoration was more than just the heart-warming nature of the stories: The series is set in England, and I’m British.