Babies for the nation [electronic resource] : the medicalization of motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 / Denyse Baillargeon ; translated by W. Donald Wilson.
Described by some as a "necropolis for babies," the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This "bleeding of the nation" gave birth to a vas...
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| Other title: | Québec en mal d'enfants. English |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. A "Bad Mother" Called Quebec
- An Early Death
- Dying While Giving Life
- Chapter 2. A Very National Infant Mortality Rate
- The Nation in Peril, 1910-1940
- A National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970
- Chapter 3. Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is Ours
- The Ignorance of Mothers
- Teach Over and Over
- Chapter 4. A School for Mothers
- Clinics for Newborns
- Home Care
- The Victorian Order of Nurses
- The Nurses from the "Met"
- The Assistance maternelle
- Services for Mothers Outside the Major Centres
- Prenatal Clinics
- Public Lectures and the Distribution of Documents
- Chapter 5. Bitter Struggles
- All for One
- General Practitioners and Public Health Officials
- General Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de Montréal
- Doctors and Nurses
- Physicians and "Maternalist" Feminists
- Church and State
- Chapter 6. The Quebec Mother and Child
- Care for Expectant Women
- Care for Babies
- To Read While Caring for Baby
- Relations with Doctors and Nurses
- Epilogue: To Have or Not to Have ...
- Appendix 1. Sources
- Appendix 2. Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965.