Prescribed norms : women and health in Canada and the United States since 1800 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010], ©2010.

xvii, 316 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-303) and index.

Part I, Rituals. Wendy's last night in the nursery : the "disease" of menstruation and its treatment ; Gladys, take your medicine! The culture and business of menopause -- Part II, Technologies. Traditional childbirth : mothers and babies ; Modern childbirth : mothers and doctors ; Future childbirth : doctors and babies -- Part III, Professions. Networks of support, networks of opposition : the medical education of women ; Nursing : the science of womanly arts -- Epilogue : the case for chaos.