Caring and curing : historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dodd, Dianne, 1955- (Editor ), Gorham, Deborah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, [1994]
Colección:Sciences sociales. Société canadienne ; no. 18.
Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; 18.
Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). Canadian society.
Temas:
Medical care > Canada > History.
Women in medicine > Canada > History.
Delivery of Health Care > history
Midwifery > history
Physicians, Women > history
Soins médicaux > Canada > Histoire.
Femmes en médecine > Canada > Histoire.
History of medicine.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Medical care
Women in medicine
Canada
Essays
women
healing
canada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Helpers or heroines? The National Council of Women, nursing, and "woman's work" in late Victorian Canada
  • Shifting Professional boundaries: gender conflict in public health, 1920-1925
  • Science and technique: nurses' work in a Canadian hospital, 1920-1939
  • "Larger fish to catch here than midwives": midwifery and the medical profession in nineteenth-century Ontario
  • Helen MacMurchy: popular midwifery and maternity services for Canadian pioneer women.

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