Article ID: CBB001213541

Nineteenth-Century Nurses and Midwives in Three Canadian Cities, 1861--1891 (2013)

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This paper focuses on nurses and midwives in Montreal, Halifax, and Saint John in the decades leading up to the introduction of trained nurses. Self-employed (private) nurses are compared with those in hospitals. overwhelmingly of the working-class, predominantly women, and frequently widows, the nurses were not formally trained, though some midwives were. Comparisons are made between nurses and midwives in Montreal, Halifax, Saint John, and their counterparts in Toronto. The changing fortunes of midwives during the era are also discussed. Cet article s'intéresse aux pratiques des infirmières et des sagesfemmes de Montréal, d'Halifax et de Saint-Jean, au 19e siècle, soit avant l'arrivée des infirmières diplômées. C'est-à-dire, au cours des décennies durant lesquelles les infirmières, surtout des femmes de la classe ouvrière et ouvent des veuves, travaillaient sans avoir reçu une formation particulière. Des comparaisons sont faites entre les infirmières ayant une pratique privée et celles oeuvrant en milieu hospitalier ainsi qu'avec leurs homologues de Toronto. Les fortunes changeantes des sages-femmes de l'époque sont également discutées.

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Authors & Contributors
Bacalexi, Dina
Barreto, Maria Renilda Nery
Beach, Abigail
Benedict, Susan
Brouwere, Vincent De
Cohen, Yolande
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Social History of Medicine
Women's History Review
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Gesnerus
Publishers
Routledge
Ashgate Publishing
Palgrave Macmillan
Presses de l'Université de Montréal
Rutgers University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Professions and professionalization
Nurse midwives
Nurses and nursing
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Obstetrics and pregnancy
People
Breckinridge, Mary
Nightingale, Florence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
South Africa
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