ISBN:
9780776603872
,
0776615599
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 218 pages)
Series Statement:
Social sciences series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4361/0971
Keywords:
Medical care
;
Women in medicine
;
Midwifery / Canada / History
;
Delivery of Health Care
;
Physicians, Women
;
Midwifery
;
History
;
Canada
;
Specialties, Nursing
;
North America
;
Physicians
;
Patient Care Management
;
Humanities
;
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
;
Women
;
Health Personnel
;
Persons
;
Health Services Administration
;
Nursing
;
Americas
;
Health Care
;
Geographic Locations
;
Named Groups
;
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
;
Health Occupations
;
Occupational Groups
;
Geographicals
;
Disciplines and Occupations
;
Delivery of Health Care / Canada / History
;
Physicians, Women / Canada / History
;
Delivery of Health Care / history / Canada
;
Midwifery / history / Canada
;
Physicians, Women / history / Canada
Abstract:
Introduction -- 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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctt1cn6swj
URL:
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