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

Author / Creator

Burnett, Kristin, 1974-

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Online

Summary

"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 bri...

"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 between 1880 and 1930, this book challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine and nursing in the contact zone."--Pub. desc.

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