Dodd, DianneGorham, Deborah2010-10-152010-10-1519941994eISBN - 9780776615592 / ISBN - 9780776603872http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19614http://www.press.uottawa.ca/book/caring-and-curingThis collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.1. Introduction 2. Helpers or Heroines? The National Council of Women, Nursing, and "Woman's Work" in Late Victorian Canada (Beverly Boutilier) 3. Shifting Professional Boundaries: Gender Conflict in Public Health, 1920-1925 (Meryn Stuart) 4. Science and Technique: Nurses' Work in a Canadian Hospital, 1920-1939 (Kathryn McPherson) 5. "Larger Fish to Catch Here than Midwives": Midwifery and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (T. H. Connor) 6. Helen MacMurchy: Popular Midwifery and Maternity Services for Canadian Pioneer Women (Dianne Dodd) 7. Care of Mothers and Infants in Montreal between the Wars: The Visiting Nurses of Metropolitan Life, Les Gouttes de lait, and Assistance maternelle (Denyse Baillargeon) 8. "No Longer an Invisible Minority": Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America (Deborah Gorham)enBook