This is Mavis Gaff-Smith’s fifth book about the history and practice of midwifery in all parts of the world.

An avid volunteer, traveller and student, she has worked in places as diverse as the Caribbean, Nepal, Thailand, the Pacific Islands, Mexico and outback Australia.

While bringing the wealth of her practical experience to the assistance of understaffed clinics and pregnant women, she eagerly notices and comments on the differences and similarities, cultural as well as medical, among the people with whom she works.

In this book she visits Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania both as a tourist and as an informed observer of the practices of Maasai and Pokot tibespeople, and of the efforts being made in a variety of hospitals and clinics to provide modern medicine to the economically underdeveloped.

Author: Mavis Gaff-Smith

ISBN: 9780987522429