Patricia Harman, CNM, has published in The Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health and The Journal of Sigma Theta Tau for Nursing Scholarship as well as alternative publications. She is a regular presenter at national midwifery conferences. Harman got her start as a lay-midwife on the rural communes where she lived in the '60s and '70s, going on to become a nurse-midwife on the faculty of Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, and West Virginia University. She lives and works near Morgantown, West Virginia, and has three sons.
“In her sweetly perceptive memoir, Harman reveals how her exam room
becomes a confessional. Coaxing women in thin gowns to share
secrets ... she reminds them that they’re not alone.”
—Michelle Green, People
“Harman has a gift for storytelling, and The Blue Cotton Gown is a
moving, percipient book.”
—Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Harman shows us the joys and sorrows of listening to women’s
stories and attending to their bodies, and she leads us through the
complicated life of a healer who is profoundly shaped by her
patients and their journeys.”
—Perri Klass, author of The Mercy Rule and Treatment Kind and
Fair
“Luminescent, ruthlessly authentic, humane, and brilliantly
written.”
—Samuel Shem, MD, author of The House of God, Mount Misery, and The
Spirit of the Place
“Touchingly revelatory . . . deeply moving.”
—Booklist, starred review
“As the mother of seven children and veteran of eight pregnancy
losses, I knew when I ran my bath that I would be unable to resist
Patricia Harman’s memoir of midwifery, The Blue Cotton Gown. What I
didn’t realize was that it would cause me, a sensible person, to
get into her bath with one sock still on and rise from it when the
candle was gone and the water cold. Utterly true and lyrical as any
novel, Harman’s book should be a little classic.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Cage
of Stars
"In her sweetly perceptive memoir, Harman reveals how her exam room
becomes a confessional. Coaxing women in thin gowns to share
secrets ... she reminds them that they're not alone."
-Michelle Green, People
"Harman has a gift for storytelling, and The Blue Cotton Gown is a
moving, percipient book."
-Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Harman shows us the joys and sorrows of listening to women's
stories and attending to their bodies, and she leads us through the
complicated life of a healer who is profoundly shaped by her
patients and their journeys."
-Perri Klass, author of The Mercy Rule and Treatment
Kind and Fair
"Luminescent, ruthlessly authentic, humane, and brilliantly
written."
-Samuel Shem, MD, author of The House of God, Mount
Misery, and The Spirit of the Place
"Touchingly revelatory . . . deeply moving."
-Booklist, starred review
"As the mother of seven children and veteran of eight pregnancy
losses, I knew when I ran my bath that I would be unable to resist
Patricia Harman's memoir of midwifery, The Blue Cotton Gown. What I
didn't realize was that it would cause me, a sensible person, to
get into her bath with one sock still on and rise from it when the
candle was gone and the water cold. Utterly true and lyrical as any
novel, Harman's book should be a little classic."
-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
and Cage of Stars
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