Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
ISBN: 9781442675360
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Childbirth -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Obstetrics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century;

A fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century from the initial diagnosis of pregnancy,though childbirth - who was present, and where it took place - to the definition of what constituted a normal birth.


Mitchinson Wendy :

Wendy Mitchinson is a Canadian historian and a Distinguished Professor Emerita in University of Waterloo.

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