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Caregiving on the periphery : historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada / edited by Myra Rutherdale.

by Rutherdale, Myra

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McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

Nursing -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.

Nursing -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Midwifery -- Canada -- History.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society; 36.

9780773536753 (bound)

9780773536760 (pbk.)

viii, 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Myra Rutherdale -- PART One. Multifaceted Lives of Midwives -- 1. "Monthly" Nurses, "Sick" Nurses, and Midwives: Working-Class Caregivers in Toronto, 1830-91 / Judith Young -- 2. Catching Babies and Delivering the Dead: Midwives and Undertakers in Mennonite Settlement Communities / Marlene Epp -- 3. On the Edgeof Empire: The Working Life of Myra (Grimsiey) Bennett / Linda Kealey -- PART Two. Writing Their Own Lives: Life Writing in Nursing History -- 4. From the Streets of Toronto to the Northwest Rebellion: Hannah Grier Coome's Call to Duty / Elizabeth Domm -- 5. Part of a Large Company of White Folk: Making Ẁhiteness,' Marking Gender in the Letters of Nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Keim -- 6. Nursing in the North and Writing for the South: The Work and Travels of Amy Wilson / Myra Rutherdale -- PART Three. Regulating Nurse Training and Professional Boundaries -- 7. Training Aboriginal Nurses: The Indian Health Services in Northwestern Canada, 1939-75 / Laurie Meijer Drees -- 8. Conflict and Resistance to Paternalism: Nursing with the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81 / Heidi Coombs-Thome -- PART Four. Northern Nursing, Natives, and Newcomers -- 9. Negotiated Process: Outpost Nursing Under the Red Cross in Ontario, 1922-84 / Jayne Elliott -- 10. Caring, Curing, and Socialization: The Ambiguities of Nursing in Northern Saskatchewan, 1944-57 / Lesley McBain -- 11. Baby Rats and Canada's Food Rules: Nurses as Educators in Northern Communities / Judith Bender Zelmanovits.

Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-

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