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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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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-330052021-11-09T09:25:21Z Caring and Curing Dodd, Dianne Gorham, Deborah essays healing canada women Health care Medicine Midwife Midwifery Nursing Ontario Public health bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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. 2015-11-03 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:26:35Z 2020-04-01T14:26:35Z 1994 book 578785 OCN: 243500930 9780776615592 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33005 eng Social Sciences application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 578785.pdf University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa 10.26530/OAPEN_578785 10.26530/OAPEN_578785 a1e2b726-4e2b-4a68-bed3-0d2f3ac2a876 9780776615592 218 open access
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