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Caring and curing historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada

Historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada (portion title)

Dodd, Dianne E. (Dianne Elizabeth) 1955- (editor.). Gorham, Deborah (editor.).

Summary: 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 and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.

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Record details

ISBN: 0776615599
ISBN: 9780776615592
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 218 pages).
Publisher: [Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, [1994]
Copyright: ©1994

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). All rights reserved.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 12, 2016).