Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 by Denyse Baillargeon

Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970

Denyse Baillargeon with W. Donald Wilson (Translator)

323 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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Described by some as a "necropolis for babies," the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This "bleeding ...

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