Handmaids of medicine : Filipino nurses' liminality in infant mortality campaigns
In the 1920s, Philippine infant mortality campaigns called into question Filipino women’s capacity to care as both mothers and nurses. Therefore the campaign required a two-step process of first remodeling elite Filipino women as nurses who would then transfer their knowledge to mothers. In order to...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38160 |