Description |
1 online resource (x, 218 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Social sciences series ;
18. Canadian society
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Sciences sociales. Société canadienne ; no. 18.
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Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; 18.
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Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). Canadian society.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Contents |
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. |
Access |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). All rights reserved. |
Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Medical care -- Canada -- History.
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Medical care. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
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Women in medicine -- Canada -- History.
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Women in medicine. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Medical care. |
Added Author |
Dodd, Dianne, 1955- editor.
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Gorham, Deborah, editor.
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Added Title |
Historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada |
Other Form: |
Print version: Caring and curing. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1994 (DLC) 95118406 (OCoLC)30511148 |
ISBN |
9780776615592 (electronic book) |
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0776615599 (electronic book) |
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9780776603872 (paperback) |
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0776603876 (paperback) |
Standard No. |
578785 |
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