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• Title:Caregiving on the periphery : historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada / edited by Myra Rutherdale.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-2014.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WY11.DC2 C385 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Nursing--Canada--History.
  Midwifery--Canada--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: History of Nursing.
  Midwifery--history.
  History, 19th Century.
  History, 20th Century.
  Canada.
  
• Description:viii, 376 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 36.
  
• Summary:Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine as nurses and midwives, particularly in remote geographical areas. Caregiving on the Periphery looks at the variety of both their medical work and the cultural conditions involved. Assembling scholars from nursing, women's studies, geography, native studies, and history, this volume looks at the experience of nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Saskatchewan, northern British Columbia, and the Arctic as well as topics such as Mennonite midwives in Western Canada, missionary nurses, and Aboriginal nursing assistants in the Yukon. Contributors illuminate the larger themes of religion, colonialism, social divisions, and native-newcomer relations. Special attention is paid to nursing in Aboriginal communities and the relations of race to medical work, particularly in connection to ideas of British ethnicity and conceptualized meanings of "whiteness." An informative collection of fascinating works, Caregiving on the Periphery provides insight into the history of medicine in Canada and the long-established importance of women for the country's wellbeing. -- Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773536753 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0773536752 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780773536760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0773536760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents: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.