TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warsh,Cheryl Krasnick
TI  - Prescribed Norms: Women and Health in Canada and the United States since 1800 
SN  - 9781442600614
U1  - 613/.042440971 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Femmes - Soins medicaux - Etats-Unis - Histoire
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Women's health services
KW  - Coursebook
KW  - HISTORY / North America
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part I: Rituals --; Chapter One: Wendy’s Last Night in the Nursery: The “Disease” of Menstruation and Its Treatment --; Chapter Two: Gladys, Take Your Medicine! The Culture and Business of Menopause --; Part II: Technologies --; Chapter Three: Traditional Childbirth: Mothers and Babies --; Chapter Four: Modern Childbirth: Mothers and Doctors --; Chapter Five: Future Childbirth: Doctors and Babies --; Part III: Professions --; Chapter Six: Networks of Support, Networks of Opposition: The Medical Education of Women --; Chapter Seven: Nursing: The Science of Womanly Arts --; Epilogue: The Case for Chaos --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In her meticulously researched history, Cheryl Krasnick Warsh challenges readers to rethink the norms of women's health and treatment in Canada and the United States since 1800. Prescribed Norms details a disturbing socio-medical history that limits and discounts women's own knowledge of their bodies and their health. By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illuminates how the shift from informal to more formal, institutionalized treatment impacts both women's health care and women's roles as health practitioners. Always accessible and occasionally irreverent, Warsh's narrative provides readers with multiple foundations for reconsidering women's health and women's health care
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442686557
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442686557
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442686557/original
ER  -