Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950
By: Wendy Mitchinson.
Series: Studies in gender and history ;; 19
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Childbirth -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; Obstetrics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; Obstetrics -- history -- Canada.; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. -- Canada.; Accouchement -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.; Obstétrique -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Description: "In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical textbooks, the medical periodical press, popular medical advice books, literature published in women's magazines, patient records, and interviews with women who gave birth and physicians who practised during the period." "While the book focuses on conventional medical practices, the author's survey of midwifery and Aboriginal birthing practices provides a counterpoint to the approach taken by Western medicine and permits valuable discussion about the dynamics of gender and race as they relate to childbirth and, more broadly, to early-twentieth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-420) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3; title: Chapter One :; title: The Uncertain World of Medicine and Medical Practitioners 19; title: Chapter Two :; title: The Even More Uncertain World of Obstetrics 47; title: Chapter Three :; title: Midwives Did Not Disappear 69; title: Chapter Four :; title: The Expanding World of Prenatal Care 104; title: Chapter Five :; title: Childbirth 158; title: Chapter Six :; title: Obstetrical Intervention 190; title: Chapter Seven :; title: Caesarian Section 231; title: Chapter Eight :; title: Maternal Mortality and Postnatal Care 260; title: Conclusion 298.