Prescribed norms : women and health in Canada and the United States since 1800 /
"By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illu...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press
©2010.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvg5bs69 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I, Rituals. Wendy's last night in the nursery : the "disease" of menstruation and its treatment ; Gladys, take your medicine! The culture and business of menopause
- Part II, Technologies. Traditional childbirth : mothers and babies ; Modern childbirth : mothers and doctors ; Future childbirth : doctors and babies
- Part III, Professions. Networks of support, networks of opposition : the medical education of women ; Nursing : the science of womanly arts
- Epilogue : the case for chaos.