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Caregiving on the periphery : historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada / edited by Myra Rutherdale.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 36.
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Canada--History.
- Nursing.
- Midwifery--Canada--History.
- Midwifery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (387 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides an insight into the history of medicine in Canada and the long-established importance of women for the country's wellbeing.
- Contents:
- The multi-faceted lives of midwives. "Monthly" nurses, "sick" nurses, and midwives : working-class caregivers in Toronto, 1830-91 / Judith Young
- Catching babies and delivering the dead : midwives and undertakers in Mennonite settlement communities / Marlene Epp
- On the edge of empire : the working life of Myra (Grimsley) Bennett / Linda Kealey
- Writing their own lives : life writing in nursing history. From the streets of Toronto to the Northwest rebellion : Hannah Grier Coome's call to duty / Elizabeth Domm
- Part of a large company of white folk : making 'whiteness,' marking gender in the letters of nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Kelm
- Nursing in the North and writing for the South : the work and travels of Amy Wilson / Myra Rutherdale
- Regulating nurse training and professional boundaries. Training Aboriginal nurses : the Indian health services in Northwestern Canada, 1939-75 / Laurie Meijer Drees
- Conflict and resistance to paternalism : nursing with the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81/ Heidi Coombs-Thorne
- Northern nursing, natives, and newcomers. A negotiated process : outpost nursing under the Red Cross in Ontario, 1922-84 / Jayne Elliott
- Caring, curing, and socialization : the ambiguities of nursing in Northern Saskatchewan, 1944-57 / Lesley McBain
- Baby rats and Canada's food rules : nurses as educators in Northern communities / Judith Bender Zelmanovits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9081-1
- OCLC:
- 995009064
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