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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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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Dodd, Dianne, 1955- (Editor), Gorham, Deborah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: [Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, [1994]
Series:Sciences sociales. Société canadienne ; no. 18.
Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.) ; 18.
Social sciences (Ottawa, Ont.). Canadian society.
Subjects:
Medical care > Canada > History.
Women in medicine > Canada > History.
Delivery of Health Care > history
Midwifery > history
Physicians, Women > history
Canada
Soins médicaux > Canada > Histoire.
Femmes en médecine > Canada > Histoire.
History of medicine.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Medical care.
Women in medicine.
Canada.
Essays
women
healing
canada
Electronic books.
History.
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