| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in childhood and family in Canada
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Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. A "Bad Mother" Called Quebec -- An Early Death -- Dying While Giving Life -- Chapter 2. A Very National Infant Mortality Rate -- The Nation in Peril, 1910-1940 -- A National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970 -- Chapter 3. Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is Ours -- The Ignorance of Mothers -- Teach Over and Over -- Chapter 4. A School for Mothers -- Clinics for Newborns -- Home Care -- The Victorian Order of Nurses -- The Nurses from the "Met" -- The Assistance maternelle -- Services for Mothers Outside the Major Centres -- Prenatal Clinics -- Public Lectures and the Distribution of Documents -- Chapter 5. Bitter Struggles -- All for One -- General Practitioners and Public Health Officials -- General Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de Montréal -- Doctors and Nurses -- Physicians and "Maternalist" Feminists -- Church and State -- Chapter 6. The Quebec Mother and Child -- Care for Expectant Women -- Care for Babies -- To Read While Caring for Baby -- Relations with Doctors and Nurses -- Epilogue: To Have or Not to Have ... -- Appendix 1. Sources -- Appendix 2. Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965. |
| Summary |
Described by some as a "necropolis for babies," the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This "bleeding of the nation" gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicalization of childbearing. In Babies for the Nation, basing her analysis on extensive documentary research and more than fifty interviews with mothers, Denyse Baillargeon sets out to understand how doctors were able to convince women to consult them, and why. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text chiefly in English. Includes some text in French, as well as some text presented in parallel columns of French and English. |
| Subject |
Obstetrics -- Social aspects -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Obstetrics -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Social control -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Social control. |
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Maternal health services -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Maternal health services. |
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Newborn infants -- Care -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Newborn infants -- Care. |
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Newborn infants -- Mortality -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Newborn infants -- Mortality. |
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Child care -- Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century.
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Child care. |
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Maternal Health Services -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Infant Care -- history. |
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Infant Mortality -- history. |
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Obstetrics -- history. |
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Social Control, Informal -- history. |
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Quebec. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1910-1970 |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Québec en mal d'enfants. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009172828
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baillargeon, Denyse, 1954- Québec en mal d'enfants. English. Babies for the nation. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2009 9781554580583 (OCoLC)244300202 |
| ISBN |
9781554582723 (electronic book) |
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1554582725 (electronic book) |
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1554580587 |
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9781554580583 |
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