Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.

By:

Mitchinson, Wendy

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in gender and history ; 19.Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 430 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781442675360
1442675365

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950.DDC classification:

618.2/00971/0904 22

LOC classification:

RG518.C2 M55 2002eb

NLM classification:

2002 G-243
WQ 11 DC2

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

Ch. 1. The Uncertain World of Medicine and Medical Practitioners -- Ch. 2. The Even More Uncertain World of Obstetrics -- Ch. 3. Midwives Did Not Disappear -- Ch. 4. The Expanding World of Prenatal Care -- Ch. 5. Childbirth -- Ch. 6. Obstetrical Intervention -- Ch. 7. Caesarian Section -- Ch. 8. Maternal Mortality and Postnatal Care.

Review: "In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical textbooks, the medical periodical press, popular medical advice books, literature published in women's magazines, patient records, and interviews with women who gave birth and physicians who practised during the period." "While the book focuses on conventional medical practices, the author's survey of midwifery and Aboriginal birthing practices provides a counterpoint to the approach taken by Western medicine and permits valuable discussion about the dynamics of gender and race as they relate to childbirth and, more broadly, to early-twentieth-century Canada."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-420) and index.

"In Giving Birth in Canada, the first historical study of childbirth in Canada, Wendy Mitchinson has written a fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century. Thorough and comprehensive, the work is based on a rich variety of sources, including medical textbooks, the medical periodical press, popular medical advice books, literature published in women's magazines, patient records, and interviews with women who gave birth and physicians who practised during the period." "While the book focuses on conventional medical practices, the author's survey of midwifery and Aboriginal birthing practices provides a counterpoint to the approach taken by Western medicine and permits valuable discussion about the dynamics of gender and race as they relate to childbirth and, more broadly, to early-twentieth-century Canada."--Jacket