Caring and Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

Caring and Curing Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

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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 a...

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Main Author: Dodd, Dianne (auth)
Other Authors: Gorham, Deborah (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 1994
Series:Social Sciences
Subjects:
History of medicine
essays
healing
canada
women
Health care
Medicine
Midwife
Midwifery
Nursing
Ontario
Public health
Online Access:OAPEN Library: download the publication
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