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Helen MacMurchy: Popular Midwifery and Maternity Services for Canadian Pioneer Women
From: Caring and Curing
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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 medicalization of childbirth,
which saw a transition from midwifery with its emphasis on "natural" childbirth to physician-controlled and eventually hospitalbased birthing, is one aspect of this phenomenon.
Contributors
Dianne Dodd
Dianne Dodd (PhD Carleton) is a historian for Parks Canada, Historic Sites and Coordinator of the Women’s History Initiative.
