Research Catalog

Title

Babies for the nation : the medicalization of motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 / Denyse Baillargeon ; translated by W. Donald Wilson.

Author

Baillargeon, Denyse, 1954-

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilson, W. Donald, 1938-

Description

xiii, 323 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1910-1970
• Social Control, Informal
• Obstetrics
• Infant Mortality
• Infant Care
• History, 20th Century
• Maternal Health Services
• Newborn infants > Québec (Province) > Care > History > 20th century
• Newborn infants > Québec (Province) > Mortality > History > 20th century
• Obstetrics > Social aspects > History > Québec (Province) > 20th century
• Social control > Québec (Province) > History > 20th century
• Maternal health services > Québec (Province) > History > 20th century
• Newborn infants > Care > History > Québec (Province) > 20th century
• Newborn infants > Mortality > History > Québec (Province) > 20th century
• Child care > Québec (Province) > History > 20th century
• Puericulture > Quebec (Province) > Histoire > 20e siecle
• Nouveau-nes > Quebec (Province) > Mortalite > Histoire > 20e siecle
• Perinatalite > Quebec (Province) > Histoire > 20e siecle
• Meres > Soins medicaux > Histoire > Quebec (Province) > 20e siecle
• Contrôle social > Quebec (Province) > Histoire > 20e siecle
• Obstetrique > Aspect social > Histoire > Quebec (Province) > 20e siecle
• Québec (Province)
• Quebec

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Translation of: Un Québec en mal d'enfants.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. "Bad Mother" Called Quebec -- Early Death -- Dying While Giving Life -- Ch. 2. Very National Infant Mortality Rate -- Nation in Peril, 1910-1940 -- National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970 -- Ch. 3. Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is Ours -- Ignorance of Mothers -- Teach Over and Over -- Ch. 4. School for Mothers -- Clinics for Newborns -- Home Care -- Services for Mothers Outside the Major Centres -- Prenatal Clinics -- Public Lectures and the Distribution of Documents -- Ch. 5. Bitter Struggles -- All for One -- General Practitioners and Public Health Officials -- General Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de Montreal -- Doctors and Nurses -- Physicians and "Maternalist" Feminists -- Church and State -- Ch. 6. 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 ... -- App. 1. Sources -- App. 2. Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965.

ISBN

• 9781554580583
• 1554580587

OCLC

• 244300202
• SCSB-11911296

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library