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Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

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Edited by Dianne Dodd and Deborah Gorham
1994
Published by: University of Ottawa Press
Series: Social Sciences
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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. Published in English.

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Cover

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

pp. ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp. xi-xii

Chapter 1 Introduction

pp. 1-16

Chapter 2 Helpers or Heroines? The National Council of Women, Nursing, and "Woman's Work" in Late Victorian Canada

pp. 17-48

Chapter 3 Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920–1925

pp. 49-70

Chapter 4 Science and Technique: Nurses' Work in a Canadian Hospital, 1920–1939

pp. 71-102

Chapter 5 "Larger Fish to Catch Here than Midwives": Midwifery and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

pp. 103-134

Chapter 6 Helen MacMurchy: Popular Midwifery and Maternity Services for Canadian Pioneer Women

pp. 135-162

Chapter 7 Care of Mothers and Infants in Montreal between the Wars: The Visiting Nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait, and Assistance maternelle

pp. 163-182

Chapter 8 "No Longer an Invisible Minority": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America

pp. 183-212

Index

pp. 213-218
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