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Caring and Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada / edited by Dianne Dodd and Deborah Gorham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dianne Dodd
- Series:
- Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). Canadian society.
- Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; 18.
- Social sciences series ; 18. Canadian society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians, Women--history--Canada.
- Physicians, Women.
- Midwifery--history--Canada.
- Midwifery.
- Medical care--history--Canada.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Canada--History.
- Women in medicine--Canada--History.
- Women in medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 1994
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Helpers or Heroines? The National Council of Women, Nursing, and ""Woman's Work"" in Late Victorian Canada; Chapter 3 Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925; Chapter 4 Science and Technique: Nurses' Work in a Canadian Hospital, 1920-1939; Chapter 5 ""Larger Fish to Catch Here than Midwives"": Midwifery and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Ontario; Chapter 6 Helen MacMurchy: Popular Midwifery and Maternity Services for Canadian Pioneer Women
- Chapter 7 Care of Mothers and Infants in Montreal between the Wars: The Visiting Nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait, and Assistance maternelleChapter 8 ""No Longer an Invisible Minority"": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
- ISBN:
- 0-7766-2702-3
- 0-7766-1559-9
- OCLC:
- 243500930
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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