Caring and curing historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 0776615599
- ISBN: 9780776615592
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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). |
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Subject: | Medical care Canada History Women in medicine Canada History |