Caring and Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada
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 a...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
1994
1994. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). Canadian society.
Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; 18. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419813806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
