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

• Main Author: Dianne Dodd (auth)
• Other Authors: Deborah Gorham (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 1994
• Subjects: Humanities; gender; midwife; public policies; birth; health; women
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 a...