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Caring and Curing

Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

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.

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Dianne Dodd

Dianne Dodd (PhD Carleton) is a historian for Parks Canada, Historic Sites and Coordinator of the Women’s History Initiative.

Deborah Gorham

Deborah Gorham is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.

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This collection of articles on women and health care in Canada from the 1880s to the present, which grew out of the 1991 University of Ottawa Hannah Lecture Series, contributes to an … ; 15 $1.65

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The National Council of Women, Nursing, and "Woman’s work" in Late Victorian Canada 32 $3.52

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Conflict and contradictions were inevitable as public health nurses and physicians attempted to work together. 21 $2.31

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For the most part, feminist scholars have concluded that until at least the post-World War II years nursing work fell outside the modern paradigm of science. This chapter challenges that … 30 $3.30

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This chapter attempts to comprehend the early evolution of Ontario’s midwives 31 $3.41

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Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, male medical practitioners successfully asserted control over more and more aspects of the traditional mothering role. The … 26 $2.86

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At the end of the nineteenth century, by which time midwives had been practically eliminated, at least in urban areas, women’s knowledge of child rearing began to be looked down upon, and … 18 $1.98

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While Canadian medicine even today continues to be male-dominated in terms of numbers and of power, and medicine itself still remains at the pinnacle of the late twentieth-century health care … 28 $3.08