Caregiving on the Periphery: Historical Perspectives on Nursing and Midwifery in Canada

Author:   Myra Rutherdale ,  Myra Rutherdale
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
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9780773536753


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   19 April 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Myra Rutherdale ,  Myra Rutherdale
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9780773536753


ISBN 10:   0773536752
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   19 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Acknowledgments Introduction / Myra Rutherdale PART ONE The 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 The Edge of Empire: The Working Life of Myra (Grimsley) 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 'Whiteness,' Marking Gender in the Letters of Nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Kelm; 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-Thorne PART FOUR Northern Nursing, Natives, and Newcomers 9 A 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 Contributors; Index"

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This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended. M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota Caregiving on the Periphery provides an excellent introduction to some of the best in nursing and midwife history in Canada. It also provides students and specialists with new avenues for further research on the multidimensional history of caregiving. B


This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended. M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota


Caregiving on the Periphery provides an excellent introduction to some of the best in nursing and midwife history in Canada. It also provides students and specialists with new avenues for further research on the multidimensional history of caregiving. B This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended. M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota


"""This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended."" M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota ""Caregiving on the Periphery provides an excellent introduction to some of the best in nursing and midwife history in Canada. It also provides students and specialists with new avenues for further research on the multidimensional history of caregiving."" Bulletin of the History of Medicine"


This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended. M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota Caregiving on the Periphery provides an excellent introduction to some of the best in nursing and midwife history in Canada. It also provides students and specialists with new avenues for further research on the multidimensional history of caregiving. Bulletin of the History of Medicine


Caregiving on the Periphery provides an excellent introduction to some of the best in nursing and midwife history in Canada. It also provides students and specialists with new avenues for further research on the multidimensional history of caregiving. Bulletin of the History of Medicine This collection is a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the social history of medicine in Canada... Highly recommended. M. L. Charleroy, University of Minnesota


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Myra Rutherdale is an associate professor of history at York University.

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