This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of women’s health and the array of factors that have played a central role in shaping it. First, it presents a background describing gender-based disparities in health care. It then discusses the cultural context in which women have been...
The origins of midwifery are part of the history ofsettling the country. Early midwifery was informal and part ofneighbourhood economies. By the latter part of the nineteenth century midwives had disappeared from most parts ofCanada. The re-emergence ofmidwives in Ontario in the past 25 years ...
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Peter Chamberlen and his sons were “barber surgeons,” practitioners in midwifery. They attended the royalty of the time. Either Peter or one of his sons was the inventor of obstetric forceps, something that they kept as a closely guarded secret for over a hundred years. Their instruments, ...
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Two other similar books followed, that of Metlinger (German) in 1473 and of Roelans (Belgian) in 1483. Eucharius Roesslin (German) opened the 16th Century of pediatric texts with a text on midwifery and pediatrics, with reviews of the 35 most common ailments of children, including many ...
Kirkina lost her husband and between three and six of her children (some accounts may have included her stepchildren, which would explain the discrepancy). Spurred by this immense loss, Kirkina decided to become a nurse. She received her training and went on to specialize in midwifery. Her ...
Other valuable classes were those in personal hygiene, nutrition, first aid, and midwifery for female students. The Nomad Education Program, like so many others, died during the civil war. Somali National University was largely destroyed in the fighting in Mogadishu. University professors and ...
Countercultural researchers jump-started interest in midwifery and home births; they also learned to produce their own cheese, making goat's cheese “no longer weird” in the United States. The grooviest of them all were arguably the bricoleurs, engineers in garages, who used “whatever comes ...
The English loss had forced them to move to Canada, where they were not entirely welcome. Still others were ex-slaves who had revolted and were living freely in the mountains of Jamaica, until the British conquered the area and deported them to Nova Scotia, from where they emigrated en ...