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Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 /
"Taking Medicine presents colonial medicine and nursing as a gendered phenomenon that had particular meanings for Aboriginal and settler women who dealt with one another over bodily matters. By bringing to light women's contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Women and indigenous studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains
- 2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T'ina, and Nakoda
- 3 Giving Birth: Women's Health Work and Western Settlement, 1850-1900
- 4 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-90s
- 5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female Attendants on Reserves, 1890-1915
- 6 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and Indian Health Services, 1915-30
- 7 The Snake and the Butterfly: Midwifery and Birth Control, 1900s-30s.