8. “No Longer an Invisible Minority”: Women Physicians and Medical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century North America

The contributors to this volume have explored several aspects of the history of women as healers in Canada during the last century. Some general themes emerge from their work. First, although physicians even in the 1990s remain reluctant to acknowledge the fact, healing has never been coterminous with medicine. Moreover, as the modern health care system has developed in Canada from the late nineteenth century, women’s traditional connection with healing has been maintained. While Canadian med..