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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138898603321

Autore

Dianne Dodd

Titolo

Caring and Curing : Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada / / edited by Dianne Dodd and Deborah Gorham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 1994

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-7766-2702-3

0-7766-1559-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Collana

Social sciences series ; ; 18. Canadian society

Altri autori (Persone)

GorhamDeborah

DoddDianne E <1955-> (Dianne Elizabeth)

Disciplina

305.43/61/0971

Soggetti

Physicians, Women - history - Canada

Midwifery - history - Canada

Medical care - history - Canada

Medical care - Canada - History

Women in medicine - Canada - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Helpers or Heroines? The National Council of Women, Nursing, and ""Woman's Work"" in Late Victorian Canada; Chapter 3 Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925; Chapter 4 Science and Technique: Nurses' Work in a Canadian Hospital, 1920-1939; Chapter 5 ""Larger Fish to Catch Here than Midwives"": Midwifery and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Ontario; Chapter 6 Helen MacMurchy: Popular Midwifery and Maternity Services for Canadian Pioneer Women

Chapter 7 Care of Mothers and Infants in Montreal between the Wars: The Visiting Nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait, and Assistance maternelleChapter 8 ""No Longer an Invisible Minority"": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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.