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• Title:Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in southern Alberta, 1880-1930 / Kristin Burnett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Burnett, Kristin, 1974-
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Call Number: WA309.DC2.1 A3 B87 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WA309.DC2.1 A3 B87 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
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  • Call Number: WA309.DC2.1 A3 B87 2010
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Indigenous women--Medical care--Alberta--History--19th century.
  Medical care--Alberta--History.
  
• Medical Subjects: Community Health Services--history
  History of Nursing
  Acculturation
  Women
  Indians, North American
  European Continental Ancestry Group
  History, 19th Century
  History, 20th Century
  Alberta
  
• Description:xi, 235 pages : ill ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Women and indigenous studies series.
  
• Summary:The buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue to dominate the history of the North American west, even though historians have recognized women's role as both colonizer and colonized since the 1980s.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
  Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by investigating the convergence of Aboriginal and settler therapeutic regimes in southern Alberta from the perspective of women. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, women in Treaty 7 nations -- Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T'ina, and Nakoda -- played important roles as healers and caregivers, and the knowledge and healing work of both Aboriginal and settler women brought them into contact. As white settlement increased and the colonial regime hardened, however, healing encounters in domestic spaces gave way to more formal, one-sided interactions in settler-run hospitals and nursing stations.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
  Taking Medicine presents colonial medicine and nursing as a gendered phenomenon that had particular meanings for Aboriginal and settler women who dealt with one another over bodily matters. By bringing to light women's contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta between 1880 and 1930, this book challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine and nursing in the contact zone."--Pub. desc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780774818285
  
• Contents:1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains
  2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T'ina, and Nakoda
  3 Giving Birth: Women's Health Work and Western Settlement, 1850-1900
  4 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-90s
  5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female Attendants on Reserves, 1890-1915
  6 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and Indian Health Services, 1915-30
  7 The Snake and the Butterfly: Midwifery and Birth Control, 1900s-30s.