A Midwife’s Tale (1998)
Mixing filmed interviews with dramatic re-enactments, A Midwife's Tale presents Laurel Ulrich's process of discovery about Martha Ballard, the wife of a surveyor who moved to rural Maine, became something like the local doctor, lost three of her children to an epidemic, and over two decades watched her career dissipate, as male physicians and 'modern medicine' slowly usurped the domain of the midwife
Director: Richard P. Rogers
Writer: Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and Laurel Ulrich
Cast: Kaiulani Lee, Laurel Ulrich
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