Nowhere to Have a Baby

Miryang Jeil Hospital delivered its first baby in 1986 and its last one a few weeks before this book went to press. For forty years it was the only place in a South Gyeongsang Province city of roughly a hundred thousand people where a woman could safely give birth without leaving town. Nowhere to Have a Baby opens there, in South Korea, because its closure lands at an inconvenient moment for anyon...