Prescribed Norms : : Women and Health in Canada and the United States since 1800 / / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
In her meticulously researched history, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh challenges readers to rethink the norms of women's health and treatment in Canada and the United States since 1800. Prescribed Norms details a disturbing socio-medical history that limits and discounts women's own knowledge of t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Rituals
- Chapter One: Wendy's Last Night in the Nursery: The "Disease" of Menstruation and Its Treatment
- Chapter Two: Gladys, Take Your Medicine! The Culture and Business of Menopause
- Part II: Technologies
- Chapter Three: Traditional Childbirth: Mothers and Babies
- Chapter Four: Modern Childbirth: Mothers and Doctors
- Chapter Five: Future Childbirth: Doctors and Babies
- Part III: Professions
- Chapter Six: Networks of Support, Networks of Opposition: The Medical Education of Women
- Chapter Seven: Nursing: The Science of Womanly Arts
- Epilogue: The Case for Chaos
- References
- Index