W Wood
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 30853 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W Wood |
| NOMBRES | W |
| APELLIDO | Wood |
| FIRMA | WOOD W |
| AFILIACIONES | Vancouver Island University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0534-8132 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1815 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Developed in the United States in the late 1950s and 1960s, the electronic fetal monitor (EFM) was increasingly used in obstetric practice throughout North America by the 1970s. In identifying and delineating the "normal" fetal heart rate, EFM played a central role in defining obstetric risk and, in the eyes of many practitioners, quickly became an essential tool of "modern" and "safe" hospitalized birth. Focusing on one specific settler-colonial…
Making Modern Maternity
A familiar, not fearful place
“Doctors Aren’t Familiar with Your Tissues”
This article explores the impact of self-examination as a tool of feminist resistance, an act of preventive health care, and a site where mainstream and alternative health models were debated in late twentieth-century Canada. In the early 1970s, a range of women’s health groups increasingly turned their liberationist critiques towards the structures of mainstream medicine, and the self-exam became a vehicle that allowed women to push back against…
No place to breathe
Lara Freidenfelds. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy
Over the past two centuries, a host of cultural and medical shifts have transformed the experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Many American women now have safer and healthier pregnancies, and greater control over their fertility, than ever before. Lara Freidenfelds opens her second book by accounting for these changes, noting that for many mothers giving birth in the twenty-first century, “the pleasures of parenthood begin earlier and with more…
Conceptualising Gender and Pain in Modern History
Pain is a defining feature of the human experience. We have all, at some point in our lives, felt physical or emotional discomfort that fits under the broad umbrella of 'pain'. Though the phenomenon of pain is universal, the ways it is experienced, perceived and conceptualised are shaped by the wider social, cultural and political milieu. The characterisation and articulation of pain is profoundly influenced by gender. In some historical and cont…
Abortion
" Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler ." Canadian Historical Review, 99(4), pp. 676–677
Shifting understandings of labour pain in Canadian medical history
While pain in childbirth is a universal, cross-cultural, biological reality, individual experiences and perceptions of this pain are historically and culturally specific. At the turn of the 20th century-a key period in terms of both the medicalisation of birth and the professionalisation of obstetrics in the Canadian context-Canadian physicians understood and conceptualised 'birth pangs' in a number of varying (and at times competing) ways. Throu…
Put Right Under’
This paper takes the personal narratives of Canadian mothers and fathers as a starting point to examine the broader state of obstetrics in post-war Canada. As natural childbirth ideologies attracted growing North American attention from the mid-1940s onwards, an increasing number of Canadians sought less-medicalised births. Despite these desires, anaesthetisation—often without consent and contrary to the expressed wishes of the labouring woman—re…
Maureen K. Lux, Separate Beds
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) issued its final report, including 94 ‘Calls to Action’ that aim to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of reconciliation. A number of these recommendations centre around health-related disparities, with the report calling upon the federal government to identify and close the gaps in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. Foc…
Media habits and their impact on media platform selection for information use
Media selection processes for current information are part of recipients' daily routine. As media choices take place repeatedly, they are most likely (at least partly) habitdriven. This paper focuses on two aspects: First, based on an elaborate definition of media habits as mental scripts automatically activated, we argue that habits are important determinants of the frequency of media platform selection for information purposes. Second, we diffe…
Wheel running and caloric restriction recruit distinct hypothalamic transcriptional profiles in wildtype and leptin receptor deficient mice
Menarcheal age in Cumbria
A survey of age at menarche in north-west England, how it is affected by family environment and how it affects physique, was carried out on a large sample of schoolgirls in Cumbria. Age at menarche shows no independent effect of social class, but is strongly influenced by family size and also partly by position in family. Similar results emerge from analyses of the status quo and recall data. Menarcheal status differences remain associated with p…
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Manpower Policies
Shorter notices
African Enterprise: The Nigerian Bread Industry. By Peter Kilby. Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 1965. Pp. x, 112. The Economics of African Development. By Andrew M. Kamarck. Pall Mall Press. 1967. Pp. xiv, 294. 63/‐ 21/‐. Economic Co‐operation in Africa: Retrospect and Prospect. By R. H. Green and K. G. V. Krishna. Oxford University Press. 1967. Pp. x, 160. 22/‐. African Economic Development. Revised Edition by William A. Hance. Pall Ma…
General conchology, or, A description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system
General conchology; or, a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system. And illustrated with plates drawn and coloured from nature. Vol. 1 /
Natura. History, such as it is considered by systematic authors, consists principally in the knowledge of species. 'T'he Botanist becomes acquainted with the different plants, and learns to arrange them by the particular characters which belong to each individual, and by the general relation which they bear to each other. The Ornithologist, the Entomologist, and the Conchologist, by the same means distinguish birds, insects, and shells. 'To make …
Shifting understandings of labour pain in Canadian medical history
While pain in childbirth is a universal, cross-cultural, biological reality, individual experiences and perceptions of this pain are historically and culturally specific. At the turn of the 20th century-a key period in terms of both the medicalisation of birth and the professionalisation of obstetrics in the Canadian context-Canadian physicians understood and conceptualised 'birth pangs' in a number of varying (and at times competing) ways. Throu…
Put Right Under’
This paper takes the personal narratives of Canadian mothers and fathers as a starting point to examine the broader state of obstetrics in post-war Canada. As natural childbirth ideologies attracted growing North American attention from the mid-1940s onwards, an increasing number of Canadians sought less-medicalised births. Despite these desires, anaesthetisation—often without consent and contrary to the expressed wishes of the labouring woman—re…
Media habits and their impact on media platform selection for information use
Media selection processes for current information are part of recipients' daily routine. As media choices take place repeatedly, they are most likely (at least partly) habitdriven. This paper focuses on two aspects: First, based on an elaborate definition of media habits as mental scripts automatically activated, we argue that habits are important determinants of the frequency of media platform selection for information purposes. Second, we diffe…
General conchology, or, A description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system
General conchology; or, a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system. And illustrated with plates drawn and coloured from nature. Vol. 1 /
Natura. History, such as it is considered by systematic authors, consists principally in the knowledge of species. 'T'he Botanist becomes acquainted with the different plants, and learns to arrange them by the particular characters which belong to each individual, and by the general relation which they bear to each other. The Ornithologist, the Entomologist, and the Conchologist, by the same means distinguish birds, insects, and shells. 'To make …
Shorter notices
African Enterprise: The Nigerian Bread Industry. By Peter Kilby. Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 1965. Pp. x, 112. The Economics of African Development. By Andrew M. Kamarck. Pall Mall Press. 1967. Pp. xiv, 294. 63/‐ 21/‐. Economic Co‐operation in Africa: Retrospect and Prospect. By R. H. Green and K. G. V. Krishna. Oxford University Press. 1967. Pp. x, 160. 22/‐. African Economic Development. Revised Edition by William A. Hance. Pall Ma…
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Manpower Policies
Menarcheal age in Cumbria
A survey of age at menarche in north-west England, how it is affected by family environment and how it affects physique, was carried out on a large sample of schoolgirls in Cumbria. Age at menarche shows no independent effect of social class, but is strongly influenced by family size and also partly by position in family. Similar results emerge from analyses of the status quo and recall data. Menarcheal status differences remain associated with p…
Wheel running and caloric restriction recruit distinct hypothalamic transcriptional profiles in wildtype and leptin receptor deficient mice
Media habits and their impact on media platform selection for information use
Media selection processes for current information are part of recipients' daily routine. As media choices take place repeatedly, they are most likely (at least partly) habitdriven. This paper focuses on two aspects: First, based on an elaborate definition of media habits as mental scripts automatically activated, we argue that habits are important determinants of the frequency of media platform selection for information purposes. Second, we diffe…
Maureen K. Lux, Separate Beds
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) issued its final report, including 94 ‘Calls to Action’ that aim to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of reconciliation. A number of these recommendations centre around health-related disparities, with the report calling upon the federal government to identify and close the gaps in health outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. Foc…
Abortion
" Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler ." Canadian Historical Review, 99(4), pp. 676–677
Shifting understandings of labour pain in Canadian medical history
While pain in childbirth is a universal, cross-cultural, biological reality, individual experiences and perceptions of this pain are historically and culturally specific. At the turn of the 20th century-a key period in terms of both the medicalisation of birth and the professionalisation of obstetrics in the Canadian context-Canadian physicians understood and conceptualised 'birth pangs' in a number of varying (and at times competing) ways. Throu…
Put Right Under’
This paper takes the personal narratives of Canadian mothers and fathers as a starting point to examine the broader state of obstetrics in post-war Canada. As natural childbirth ideologies attracted growing North American attention from the mid-1940s onwards, an increasing number of Canadians sought less-medicalised births. Despite these desires, anaesthetisation—often without consent and contrary to the expressed wishes of the labouring woman—re…
Conceptualising Gender and Pain in Modern History
Pain is a defining feature of the human experience. We have all, at some point in our lives, felt physical or emotional discomfort that fits under the broad umbrella of 'pain'. Though the phenomenon of pain is universal, the ways it is experienced, perceived and conceptualised are shaped by the wider social, cultural and political milieu. The characterisation and articulation of pain is profoundly influenced by gender. In some historical and cont…
No place to breathe
Lara Freidenfelds. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy
Over the past two centuries, a host of cultural and medical shifts have transformed the experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Many American women now have safer and healthier pregnancies, and greater control over their fertility, than ever before. Lara Freidenfelds opens her second book by accounting for these changes, noting that for many mothers giving birth in the twenty-first century, “the pleasures of parenthood begin earlier and with more…
“Doctors Aren’t Familiar with Your Tissues”
This article explores the impact of self-examination as a tool of feminist resistance, an act of preventive health care, and a site where mainstream and alternative health models were debated in late twentieth-century Canada. In the early 1970s, a range of women’s health groups increasingly turned their liberationist critiques towards the structures of mainstream medicine, and the self-exam became a vehicle that allowed women to push back against…
Making Modern Maternity
A familiar, not fearful place
High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Developed in the United States in the late 1950s and 1960s, the electronic fetal monitor (EFM) was increasingly used in obstetric practice throughout North America by the 1970s. In identifying and delineating the "normal" fetal heart rate, EFM played a central role in defining obstetric risk and, in the eyes of many practitioners, quickly became an essential tool of "modern" and "safe" hospitalized birth. Focusing on one specific settler-colonial…
Sociology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 obras) · Pregnancy (5 obras) · Biology (4 obras)