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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 …
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 …
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 …