| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 36 |
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McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 36.
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| Contents |
The multi-faceted lives of midwives. "Monthly" nurses, "sick" nurses, and midwives : working-class caregivers in Toronto, 1830-91 / Judith Young -- Catching babies and delivering the dead : midwives and undertakers in Mennonite settlement communities / Marlene Epp -- On the edge of empire : the working life of Myra (Grimsley) Bennett / Linda Kealey -- Writing their own lives : life writing in nursing history. From the streets of Toronto to the Northwest rebellion : Hannah Grier Coome's call to duty / Elizabeth Domm -- Part of a large company of white folk : making 'whiteness, ' marking gender in the letters of nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Kelm -- Nursing in the North and writing for the South : the work and travels of Amy Wilson / Myra Rutherdale -- Regulating nurse training and professional boundaries. Training Aboriginal nurses : the Indian health services in Northwestern Canada, 1939-75 / Laurie Meijer Drees -- Conflict and resistance to paternalism : nursing with the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81/ Heidi Coombs-Thorne -- Northern nursing, natives, and newcomers. A negotiated process : outpost nursing under the Red Cross in Ontario, 1922-84 / Jayne Elliott -- Caring, curing, and socialization : the ambiguities of nursing in Northern Saskatchewan, 1944-57 / Lesley McBain -- Baby rats and Canada's food rules : nurses as educators in Northern communities / Judith Bender Zelmanovits |
| Summary |
Provides an insight into the history of medicine in Canada and the long-established importance of women for the country's wellbeing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Nursing -- Canada -- History
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Midwifery -- Canada -- History
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History of Nursing
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Midwifery -- history
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Medical & Surgical.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Midwifery
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Nursing
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| SUBJECT |
Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
| Subject |
Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-2014.
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| LC no. |
2012360126 |
| ISBN |
0773590811 |
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9780773590816 |
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