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Fighting Fat
Canada, 1920-1980
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$46.95
ISBN: 9781487522742
Pub Date: August 2018
Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.
Body Failure
Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
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$54.00
ISBN: 9781442614314
Pub Date: September 2013
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.
Obesity in Canada
Critical Perspectives
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$54.00
ISBN: 9781442628540
Pub Date: April 2016
Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed obesity epidemic
Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
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$58.00
ISBN: 9780802084712
Pub Date: May 2002
A fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century from the initial diagnosis of pregnancy,though childbirth – who was present, and where it took place – to the definition of what constituted a normal birth.
The Nature of their Bodies
Women and their Doctors in Victorian Canada
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$58.00
ISBN: 9780802068408
Pub Date: May 1991
In documenting the changing nature of interventional medicine, Mitchinson considers the medical treatment of women within the context of what was available to physicians at the time.
On the Case
Explorations in Social History
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$54.00
ISBN: 9780802081292
Pub Date: November 1998
This collection is the first forum in which the merits and pitfalls of the case-file approach are debated. A timely contribution to current scholarship and debate in social history and related fields.

Fighting Fat
Canada, 1920-1980
$46.95
ISBN: 9781487522742
Pub Date: August 2018
Fighting Fat is a comprehensive study of approaches to obesity from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. It examines the health professions use of the word 'obesity', how it was measured, its causes, and treatments. It examines popular cultures view of the obese and its effect on those who were fat.
Body Failure
Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442614314
Pub Date: September 2013
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.
Obesity in Canada
Critical Perspectives
$54.00
ISBN: 9781442628540
Pub Date: April 2016
Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed obesity epidemic
Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950
$58.00
ISBN: 9780802084712
Pub Date: May 2002
A fascinating account of childbirth rituals in the first half of the twentieth century from the initial diagnosis of pregnancy,though childbirth – who was present, and where it took place – to the definition of what constituted a normal birth.
The Nature of their Bodies
Women and their Doctors in Victorian Canada
$58.00
ISBN: 9780802068408
Pub Date: May 1991
In documenting the changing nature of interventional medicine, Mitchinson considers the medical treatment of women within the context of what was available to physicians at the time.
On the Case
Explorations in Social History
$54.00
ISBN: 9780802081292
Pub Date: November 1998
This collection is the first forum in which the merits and pitfalls of the case-file approach are debated. A timely contribution to current scholarship and debate in social history and related fields.