Ellie Rose Mattoon with Dr. Maya Sorini: The Maverick’s Midwife

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Celebrating the debut novel by writer and medical student Ellie Rose Mattoon– The Maverick’s Midwife— which is a perfect blend of these disciplines supported by extensive research into the women of Vienna’s famous maternity ward. In the novel, we meet midwifery student Anna Maier, who wants nothing to do with medical men after losing her sister to the mysterious, rampant doctor’s plague known as childbed fever. But when Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a maverick obstetrician, opens an investigation on childbed fever, Anna sees a chance to find answers to her sister’s death. The two begin a discrete partnership-verboten in its crossing of gender lines and direct insubordination to hospital rules-and Anna soon finds herself in anatomy theatres where the only other woman in the room is the cadaver. Join the author in conversation with Dr. Maya J. Sorini, for a conversation about the history of medicine, and the craft of writing as a tool to bring it to life. The seed of this novel began at Bird in Hand, an extra special layer to this meaningful evening!

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