Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930

Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 / Kristin Burnett.

"Taking Medicine presents colonial medicine and nursing as a gendered phenomenon that had particular meanings for Aboriginal and settler women who dealt with one another over bodily matters. By bringing to light women's contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burnett, Kristin, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
Series:Women and indigenous studies series.
Subjects:
Medical care.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women's health services.
Acculturation.
Indians of North America.
Women.
Indigenous women > Medical care > Alberta > History.
Women's health services > Alberta > History.
Indigenous women > Health and hygiene > Alberta > History.
Women > Health and hygiene > Alberta > History.
Indigenous peoples > Medicine > Alberta > History.
Indigenous peoples > Medical care > Alberta > History.
Medical care > Alberta > History.
White people.
Medicine > History > 20th century.
women (female humans)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
Women
Indians of North America
Acculturation
Medical care
Women > Health and hygiene
Women's health services
Alberta.
Alberta
History
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