Caregiving on the periphery historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada
Myra Rutherdale.
Caregiving on the periphery historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada - London | McGill-Queen’s University Press | 2010 - 387 Pages Includes bibliographical references and index
Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine as nurses and midwives, particularly in remote geographical areas.Caregiving on the Peripheryexamines their labours in a range of regions and contexts to present a more comprehensive understanding of 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 and features essays on 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 conceptualised meanings of "whiteness."
An informative collection of fascinating works,Caregiving on the Peripheryprovides insight into the history of medicine in Canada And The long-established importance of women For The country's wellbeing.
978-0-7735-3675-3 (bnd) 978-0-7735-3676-0 (pbk) = Common terms and phrases Aboriginal communities Aboriginal Health Alaska Highway Anglican Archives Arctic areas baby Bennett birth British Columbia Buffalo Narrows Butcher Canada Canadian Nursing census century childbirth colonial Coome cultural Diack Directory disease DNHW doctors Dr duties early experience federal gender Grenfell Mission Grenfell nurses Haisla Hornepayne Hospitals Department Files Ibid IHS immigrants Indian Health Services Interview Inuit isolated Kathryn McPherson Kitamaat labour lac rg29 Lesley letters living Manitoba Medical Services medicine Mennonite midwifery midwives missionaries Montreal & Kingston Mother Hannah Native Newfoundland and Labrador North Northern Health northern nurses Northern Saskatchewan Northwest Territories nursing history nursing stations Ontario Ottawa outpost nurses Paddon PANL patients physicians practice private nurses professional public health nurses Red Cross Regina reported role rural SAB File settlers sick social St staff Stony Rapids supervisors tion Toronto Press tuberculosis UBC Press University of Toronto Wilson woman women Common terms and phrases Aboriginal communities Aboriginal Health Alaska Highway Anglican Archives Arctic areas baby Bennett birth British Columbia Buffalo Narrows Butcher Canada Canadian Nursing census century childbirth colonial Coome cultural Diack Directory disease DNHW doctors Dr duties early experience federal gender Grenfell Mission Grenfell nurses Haisla Hornepayne Hospitals Department Files Ibid IHS immigrants Indian Health Services Interview Inuit isolated Kathryn McPherson Kitamaat labour lac rg29 Lesley letters living Manitoba Medical Services medicine Mennonite midwifery midwives missionaries Montreal & Kingston Mother Hannah Native Newfoundland and Labrador North Northern Health northern nurses Northern Saskatchewan Northwest Territories nursing history nursing stations Ontario Ottawa outpost nurses Paddon PANL patients physicians practice private nurses professional public health nurses Red Cross Regina reported role rural SAB File settlers sick social St staff Stony Rapids supervisors tion Toronto Press tuberculosis UBC Press University of Toronto Wilson woman women
--Nursing Canada History. -- Midwifery Canada History.
610.730 971
Caregiving on the periphery historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada - London | McGill-Queen’s University Press | 2010 - 387 Pages Includes bibliographical references and index
Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine as nurses and midwives, particularly in remote geographical areas.Caregiving on the Peripheryexamines their labours in a range of regions and contexts to present a more comprehensive understanding of 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 and features essays on 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 conceptualised meanings of "whiteness."
An informative collection of fascinating works,Caregiving on the Peripheryprovides insight into the history of medicine in Canada And The long-established importance of women For The country's wellbeing.
978-0-7735-3675-3 (bnd) 978-0-7735-3676-0 (pbk) = Common terms and phrases Aboriginal communities Aboriginal Health Alaska Highway Anglican Archives Arctic areas baby Bennett birth British Columbia Buffalo Narrows Butcher Canada Canadian Nursing census century childbirth colonial Coome cultural Diack Directory disease DNHW doctors Dr duties early experience federal gender Grenfell Mission Grenfell nurses Haisla Hornepayne Hospitals Department Files Ibid IHS immigrants Indian Health Services Interview Inuit isolated Kathryn McPherson Kitamaat labour lac rg29 Lesley letters living Manitoba Medical Services medicine Mennonite midwifery midwives missionaries Montreal & Kingston Mother Hannah Native Newfoundland and Labrador North Northern Health northern nurses Northern Saskatchewan Northwest Territories nursing history nursing stations Ontario Ottawa outpost nurses Paddon PANL patients physicians practice private nurses professional public health nurses Red Cross Regina reported role rural SAB File settlers sick social St staff Stony Rapids supervisors tion Toronto Press tuberculosis UBC Press University of Toronto Wilson woman women Common terms and phrases Aboriginal communities Aboriginal Health Alaska Highway Anglican Archives Arctic areas baby Bennett birth British Columbia Buffalo Narrows Butcher Canada Canadian Nursing census century childbirth colonial Coome cultural Diack Directory disease DNHW doctors Dr duties early experience federal gender Grenfell Mission Grenfell nurses Haisla Hornepayne Hospitals Department Files Ibid IHS immigrants Indian Health Services Interview Inuit isolated Kathryn McPherson Kitamaat labour lac rg29 Lesley letters living Manitoba Medical Services medicine Mennonite midwifery midwives missionaries Montreal & Kingston Mother Hannah Native Newfoundland and Labrador North Northern Health northern nurses Northern Saskatchewan Northwest Territories nursing history nursing stations Ontario Ottawa outpost nurses Paddon PANL patients physicians practice private nurses professional public health nurses Red Cross Regina reported role rural SAB File settlers sick social St staff Stony Rapids supervisors tion Toronto Press tuberculosis UBC Press University of Toronto Wilson woman women
--Nursing Canada History. -- Midwifery Canada History.
610.730 971