CONTENTS

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

List of Figures and Tables

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Cores/Peripheries – Rural/Remote: Medicine, Health-Care Delivery and the North

pp 1-18

Part I - Remote Medicine and the State

pp 19-20

1 - Medical Services in a Northern Russian Province, 1864–1917

pp 21-38

2 - Changing Minority Culture: Health Services and Health Promotion in Northern Norway, 1900–50s

pp 39-56

3 - The Sami, Sami-ness and the Staffing of Health Services in Northern Norway, 1960s–2001

pp 57-74

4 - Foreshadowing the Future: Health Services in Remote Areas, the National Health Service and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1948–74

pp 75-90

Part II - Doctors and Doctoring in Remote Areas

pp 91-92

5 - A Country Doctor: Health Care in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Remote Area

pp 93-114

6 - Medical Reports from the 1800s and What they Tell about Health Conditions, Population and the Work of Doctors in Peripheral Norway

pp 115-128

7 - ‘Medicine is Here to Stay’: Rural Medical Practice, the Northern Frontier and Modernization in 1930s' Newfoundland

pp 129-152

8 - Policing Practitioners on the Periphery: Elite Physicians and Profession-Building in a Bicultural Province, 1920–39

pp 153-168

Part III - Women, Health Care and the Practice of Medicine

pp 169-170

9 - The West Greenlandic Midwives 1820–1920: Mediators between their Compatriots and Danish Doctors

pp 171-182

10 - Delivering Health Care in Rural New Brunswick: Outpost Nursing in the Twentieth Century

pp 183-198

11 - Mother's Medicine: Women, Home and Health in the Peace River Region of British Columbia, Canada, 1920–40

pp 199-214

12 - Call of the Wild: Public Health Nursing in Post-War Lapland

pp 215-236

Notes

pp 237-290

Index

pp 291-301