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Targeted racist attacks on granny midwives proliferate.
Date: 1920s
Reproductive health/reproductive rights
Racism/white supremacy
Old age/aging
Traditional/folk/cultural medicine
Some physicians label granny midwives as “a cross between a superstitious hag and a meddlesome old biddy" (Bonaparte, 2007).
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