Prescribed Norms : Women and Health in Canada and the United States since 1800 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--Canada--History.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene--United States--History.

Women's health services--Canada--History.

Women's health services.

Women's health services--United States--History.

United States.

Canada.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illuminates how the shift from informal to more formal, institutionalized treatment impacts both women's health care and women's roles as health practitioners"--Pub. info

Contents:

Part I, Rituals. Wendy's last night in the nursery : the "disease" of menstruation and its treatment ; Gladys, take your medicine! The culture and business of menopause

Part II, Technologies. Traditional childbirth : mothers and babies ; Modern childbirth : mothers and doctors ; Future childbirth : doctors and babies

Part III, Professions. Networks of support, networks of opposition : the medical education of women ; Nursing : the science of womanly arts

Epilogue : the case for chaos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-0429-8

1-4426-8655-3

OCLC:

893232067