Caring and curing : historical perspectives on women and healing in Canada
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- ISBN: 0776603876
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Physical Description:
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x, 218 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c1994.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Care of mothers and infants in Montreal between the wars: the visiting nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait and assistance maternelle -- "No longer an invisible minority": women physicians and medical practice in late twentieth-century North America. |
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Subject: | Midwifery -- History -- Canada Women in medicine -- Canada -- History Medical care -- Canada -- History Physicians, Women -- History -- Canada Delivery of Health Care -- History -- Canada |
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Lansdowne Library | R 692 C37 (Text) | 26040001770540 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |