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"Nations Are Built of Babies" : Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children 1900-1940

1993

"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties.
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Authors

Cynthia R. Comacchio

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-334) and index
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
613/.0432/09713
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
20
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-on
ISBN
9780773563889 0773509917
LCCN
RJ103.C2
LCCN Item number
C66 1993eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
DNLM
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xv, 340 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)jme00326240 (OCoLC)144143819 (CaOOCEL)400379
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Title proper/short title
Saving Ontario's mothers and children, 1900-1940
Transcribing agency
DNLM

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