Caregiving on the periphery: historical perspectives on nursing and midwifery in Canada

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Acknowledgments Introduction / Myra Rutherdale PART ONE The Multifaceted Lives of Midwives 1 Monthly Nurses, Sick Nurses, and Midwives: Working-Class Caregivers in Toronto, 1830-91 / Judith Young 2 Catching Babies and Delivering the Dead: Midwives and Undertakers in Mennonite Settlement Communities / Marlene Epp 3 The Edge of Empire: The Working Life of Myra (Grimsley) Bennett / Linda Kealey PART TWO Writing Their Own Lives: Life Writing in Nursing History 4 From the Streets of Toronto to the Northwest Rebellion: Hannah Grier Coome's Call to Duty / Elizabeth Domm 5 Part of a Large Company of White Folk: Making 'Whiteness,' Marking Gender in the Letters of Nurse Margaret Butcher / Mary-Ellen Kelm 6 Nursing in the North and Writing for the South: The Work and Travels of Amy Wilson / Myra Rutherdale PART THREE Regulating Nurse Training and Professional Boundaries 7 Training Aboriginal Nurses: The Indian Health Services in Northwestern Canada, 1939-75 / Laurie Meijer Drees 8 Conflict and Resistance to Paternalism: Nursing with the Grenfell Mission Stations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1939-81 / Heidi Coombs-Thorne PART FOUR Northern Nursing, Natives, and Newcomers 9 A Negotiated Process: Outpost Nursing Under the Red Cross in Ontario, 1922-84 / Jayne Elliott 10 Caring, Curing, and Socialization: The Ambiguities of Nursing in Northern Saskatchewan, 1944-57 / Lesley McBain 11 Baby Rats and Canada's Food Rules: Nurses as Educators in Northern Communities / Judith Bender Zelmanovits Contributors Index