| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Wendy Mitchinson. Giving Birth in Canada: 1900–1950. (Studies in Gender and History, number 19.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 430. Cloth $65.00, paper $29.95.

Wendy Mitchinson's book is a welcome addition to the historiography of women patients' interactions with the medical profession. It focuses on a period that has received far less attention than the nineteenth century and one in which, Mitchinson argues, the medicalization of childbirth became complete. In a series of chapters that are somewhat unwieldy but full of fascinating detail, she traces the patterns of growing surveillance and intervention during these decades by examining the expansion of pre- and postnatal care, the rise in hospital births, and the growing use of medication, instruments, and numerous other interventions in the birthing process. . . .

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