Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women's Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in 20th-Century Alberta, Canada.
Can Bull Med Hist
; 37(2): 427-460, 2020.
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ABSTRACT
As new government health policy was created and implemented in the late 1910s and the late 1960s, women patients and health practitioners recognized gaps in the new health services and worked together to create better programs. This article brings the histories of the district nursing program (1919-43) and local birth control centres (1970-79) together to recognize women's health provision (as trained nurses or lay practitioners) as community-based and collaborative endeavours in the province of Alberta. The district nursing and birth control centre programs operated under different health policies, were influenced by different feminisms, and were situated in different Indigenous-settler relations. But the two programs, occurring half a century apart, provided space for health workers and their patients to implement change at a community level. Health practitioners in the early and late twentieth century took women's experiential knowledge seriously, and, therefore, these communities formed a new field of women's health expertise.
Palavras-chave
Alberta; Indigenous-settler relationships; XXe siècle; activisme en matière de régulation des naissances; birth control activism; community health practices; maternité scientifique; praticiennes de la santé des femmes; pratiques de santé communautaire; relations entre Autochtones et colons; reproductive health; rural health; santé des femmes; santé reproductive; santé rurale; scientific motherhood; women health practitioners
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Temas:
ECOS
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Estado_mercado_regulacao
Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Saúde da Mulher
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Pessoal de Saúde
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Enfermagem em Saúde Comunitária
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Anticoncepção
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Instituições de Assistência Ambulatorial
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Serviços de Saúde do Indígena
Limite:
Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Can Bull Med Hist
Assunto da revista:
HISTORIA DA MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article