Article ID: CBB704891624

Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20th-Century Alberta, Canada (2020)

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As new government health policy was created and implemented in the late 1910s and the late 1960s, women patients and health practitioners recognized gaps in the new health services and worked together to create better programs. This article brings the histories of the district nursing program (1919–43) and local birth control centres (1970–79) together to recognize women’s health provision (as trained nurses or lay practitioners) as community-based and collaborative endeavours in the province of Alberta. The district nursing and birth control centre programs operated under different health policies, were influenced by different feminisms, and were situated in different Indigenous-settler relations. But the two programs, occurring half a century apart, provided space for health workers and their patients to implement change at a community level. Health practitioners in the early and late twentieth century took women’s experiential knowledge seriously, and, therefore, these communities formed a new field of women’s health expertise.

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Authors & Contributors
Cantor, David
Bell, Susan E.
Camargo Junior, Kenneth Rochel
Dyck, Erika
Gradmann, Christoph
Hall, Lesley A.
Journals
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Dubrovnik Annals
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Health and History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Manchester University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publications de l'Université de Provence
Rutgers University Press
Temple University Press
Concepts
Women and health
Medicine and gender
Medicine and society
Health care
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Alberta, Canada
Brazil
Caribbean
Croatia
Australia
Institutions
University of Toronto
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