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

• 第一著者: Dianne Dodd (auth)
• その他の著者: Deborah Gorham (auth)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 1994
• 主題: Humanities; gender; midwife; public policies; birth; health; women
• オンライン･アクセス: 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...