Caregiving on the Periphery

Women have played a crucial role in health and medicine as nurses and midwives, particularly in remote geographical areas. Caregiving on the Peripherylooks at the variety of both their medical work And The cultural conditions involved.Assembling scholars from nursing, women's studies, geography, native studies, and history, this volume looks at the experience of nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Saskatchewan, northern British Columbia, And The Arctic as well as topics such as Mennonite midwives in Western Canada, missionary nurses, and Aboriginal nursing assistants in the Yukon. Contributors illuminate the larger themes of religion, colonialism, social divisions, and native-newcomer relations. Special attention is paid to nursing in Aboriginal communities And The relations of race to medical work, particularly in connection to ideas of British ethnicity and conceptualized meanings of "whiteness."An informative collection of fascinating works, Caregiving on the Peripheryprovides insight into the history of medicine in Canada And The long-established importance of women For The country's wellbeing.