Aboriginal midwifery in Canada: Merging traditional practices and modern science

Reconceiving Midwifery

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 263-286

  Carroll, Dena ^a   Benoit, Cecilia ^b  

^a University of Victoria ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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