Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

Prescribed Norms

Women and Health in Canada and the United States Since 1800

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging readers to rethink the norms of women's health and treatment, Prescribed Norms concludes with a gesture to chaos theory as a way of critiquing and breaking out of prescribed physiological and social understandings of women's health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781442600614
• ISBN-10: 1442600616
• Artikelnr.: 28887979

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is Professor of History at Vancouver Island University and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Rituals
1. Wendy's Last Night in the Nursery: The "Disease" of Menstruation and Its
Treatment
2. Gladys, Take Your Medicine! The Culture and Business of Menopause
Part II: Technologies
3. Traditional Childbirth: Mothers and Babies
4. Modern Childbirth: Mothers and Doctors
5. Future Childbirth: Doctors and Babies
Part III: Professions
6. Networks of Support, Networks of Opposition: The Medical Education of
Women
7. Nursing: The Science of Womanly Arts
Epilogue: The Case for Chaos
References
Index