Caring and Curing : Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada

• Tác giả: Deborah Gorham, Dianne Dodd
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0776627021
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.43610971 Women
• Thông tin xuất bản: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 1994
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 228756

Tóm tắt

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.