Canadian midwifery: Blending traditional and modern practices

On All Frontiers: Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 27-41

  Benoit, Cecilia ^a,b   Carroll, Dena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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