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

• Autore: Dianne Dodd
• Pubblicazione: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 1994; Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 1994; ©1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.43/61/0971
• Soggetto topico: Physicians, Women - history - Canada; Midwifery - history - Canada; Medical care - history - Canada; Medical care - Canada - History; Women in medicine - Canada - History
• Altri autori: GorhamDeborah DoddDianne E <1955-> (Dianne Elizabeth)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caring and Curing
• ISBN: 0-7766-2702-3; 0-7766-1559-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910138898603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). . -Canadian society.; Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; ; 18.