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 a...

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Main Author: Dodd, Dianne (auth)
Other Authors: Gorham, Deborah (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 1994
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