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Author Mitchinson, Wendy.

Title Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 430 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in gender and history ; 19
Studies in gender and history ; 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-420) and index.
Summary "In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical textbooks, the medical periodical press, popular medical advice books, literature published in women's magazines, patient records, and interviews with women who gave birth and physicians who practised during the period." "While the book focuses on conventional medical practices, the author's survey of midwifery and Aboriginal birthing practices provides a counterpoint to the approach taken by Western medicine and permits valuable discussion about the dynamics of gender and race as they relate to childbirth and, more broadly, to early-twentieth-century Canada."--Jacket.
Contents Ch. 1. The Uncertain World of Medicine and Medical Practitioners -- Ch. 2. The Even More Uncertain World of Obstetrics -- Ch. 3. Midwives Did Not Disappear -- Ch. 4. The Expanding World of Prenatal Care -- Ch. 5. Childbirth -- Ch. 6. Obstetrical Intervention -- Ch. 7. Caesarian Section -- Ch. 8. Maternal Mortality and Postnatal Care.
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Subject Childbirth -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Childbirth.
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Obstetrics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Obstetrics.
Obstetrics -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Pregnancy.
Canada.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mitchinson, Wendy. Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 9780802036315 (DLC) 2002514186 (OCoLC)48033507
ISBN 9781442675360 (electronic book)
1442675365 (electronic book)
9780802036315
0802036317
9780802084712
0802084710