Caregiving on the periphery
Subtitle: historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada
By: edited by Myra Rutherdale
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the history of medicine, health and society -- 36; McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society -- 36.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780773536753; 9780773536760
Subjects: History of Nursing; Nursing; Histoire; Sages-femmes; History, 19th Century; Soins infirmiers; History, 20th Century; Midwifery; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The multi-faceted lives of midwives. "Monthly" nurses, "sick" nurses, and midwives : working-class caregivers in Toronto, 1830-91 / Judith Young; title: Catching babies and delivering the dead : midwives and undertakers in Mennonite settlement communities / Marlene Epp; title: On the edge of empire : the working life of Myra (Grimsley) Bennett / Linda Kealey; title: 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; title: Part of a large company of white folk : making 'whiteness,' marking gender in the letters of nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Kelm; title: Nursing in the North and writing for the South : the work and travels of Amy Wilson /  Myra Rutherdale; title: Regulating nurse training and professional boundaries. Training Aboriginal nurses : the Indian health services in Northwestern Canada, 1939-75 / Laurie Meijer Drees; title: Conflict and resistance to paternalism : nursing with the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81/ Heidi Coombs-Thorne; title: Northern nursing, natives, and newcomers. A negotiated process : outpost nursing under the Red Cross in Ontario, 1922-84 / Jayne Elliott; title: Caring, curing, and socialization : the ambiguities of nursing in Northern Saskatchewan, 1944-57 / Lesley McBain; title: Baby rats and Canada's food rules : nurses as educators in Northern communities / Judith Bender Zelmanovits.