Overview

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Author:   J T H Connor ,  Stephan Curtis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781848931572

ISBN 10:   1848931573
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   01 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Cores/Peripheries - Rural/Remote: Medicine, Health-Care Delivery and the North - Stephan Curtis Part I: Remote Medicine and the State 1 Medical Services in a Northern Russian Province, 1864-1917 - Steven Cherry and Francis King 2 Changing Minority Culture: Health Services and Health Promotion in Northern Norway, 1900-50s - Teemu Ryymin 3 The Sami, Sami-ness and the Staffing of Health Services in Northern Norway, 1960s-2001 - Astri Andresen 4 Foreshadowing the Future: Health Services in Remote Areas, the National Health Service and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1948-74 - Marguerite Dupree Part II: Doctors and Doctoring in Remote Areas 5 A Country Doctor: Health Care in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Remote Area - Soren Edvinsson 6 Medical Reports from the 1800s and What they Tell about Health Conditions, Population and the Work of Doctors in Peripheral Norway - Oivind Larsen 7 'Medicine is Here to Stay': Rural Medical Practice, the Northern Frontier and Modernization in 1930s' Newfoundland - J T H Connor 8 Policing Practitioners on the Periphery: Elite Physicians and Profession-Building in a Bicultural Province, 1920-39 - Sasha Mullally Part III: Women, Health Care and the Practice of Medicine 9 The West Greenlandic Midwives 1820-1920: Mediators between their Compatriots and Danish Doctors - Mette Ronsager 10 Delivering Health Care in Rural New Brunswick: Outpost Nursing in the Twentieth Century - Linda Kealey 11 Mother's Medicine: Women, Home and Health in the Peace River Region of British Columbia, Canada, 1920-40 - Megan J Davies 12 Call of the Wild: Public Health Nursing in Post-War Lapland - Marianne Junila

Reviews

'An ambitious book [which] deserves to succeed in its aim to open up the history of medical practice in the sparsely populated regions of the extreme north as a subject worthy of the attention of historians.' Annals of Science '[an] excellent collection' Social History of Medicine

'An ambitious book [which] deserves to succeed in its aim to open up the history of medical practice in the sparsely populated regions of the extreme north as a subject worthy of the attention of historians.' Annals of Science

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J T H Connor, Stephen Curtis

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