Denyse Baillargeon is a professor in the History Department at the Université de Montréal.Donald Wilson joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he remained until his retirement. A former chair of the Department of French Studies at UW, he is the translator of Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970, by Denyse Baillargeon (WLU Press, 2009) and, with Paul G. Socken, of Aaron: A Novel, by Yves Thériault (WLU Press, 2007).

"Originally published in 2004, Denyse Baillargeon's Un Quibec en mal d'enfonu has finally been translated for an English-speaking audience. Babies for the Nation offers a riveting study of the medicalisation of maternity and maternal discourses in Quebec over the course of the twentieth century, bringing attention to an issue largely elided within existing studies of Quebec. Babies for the Nation is an indispensable resource for social historians interested in the growth of maternal and medical ideologies in French-Canada across the twentieth century, shedding light on an issue left largely unexplored until now. Similarly, Baillargeon's focus on the political movements and welfare groups that arose to help Structure and safeguard new procedures and discourses also make this an interesting read for political historians concerned with the rise of state intervention in the home." - Sarah Galletly, University of Strathclyde, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23 (Number 2), 2010

• Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 by Denyse BaillargeonList of TablesList of AcronymsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: A ""Bad Mother"" Called QuebecAn Early DeathDying While Giving LifeChapter 2: A Very National Infant Mortality RateThe Nation in Peril, 1910-1940A National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970Chapter 3: Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is OursThe Ignorance of MothersTeach Over and OverChapter 4: A School for MothersClinics for NewbornsHome CareThe Victorian Order of NursesThe Nurses from the ""Met""The Assistance maternelleServices for Mothers Outside the Major CitiesPrenatal ClinicsPublic Lectures and the Distribution of DocumentsChapter 5: Bitter StrugglesAll for OneGeneral Practitioners and Public Health OfficialsGeneral Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de MontréalDoctors and NursesPhysicians and ""Maternalist"" FeministsChurch and StateChapter 6: The Quebec Mother and ChildCare for Expectant WomenCare for BabiesTo Read While Caring for BabyRelations with Doctors and NursesEpilogue: To Have or Not To HaveAppendix 1: SourcesAppendix 2: Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965NotesBibliographyIndex

Denyse Baillargeon is a professor in the History Department at the Université de Montréal.Donald Wilson joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he remained until his retirement. A former chair of the Department of French Studies at UW, he is the translator of Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970, by Denyse Baillargeon (WLU Press, 2009) and, with Paul G. Socken, of Aaron: A Novel, by Yves Thériault (WLU Press, 2007).

"Originally published in 2004, Denyse Baillargeon's Un Quibec en mal d'enfonu has finally been translated for an English-speaking audience. Babies for the Nation offers a riveting study of the medicalisation of maternity and maternal discourses in Quebec over the course of the twentieth century, bringing attention to an issue largely elided within existing studies of Quebec. Babies for the Nation is an indispensable resource for social historians interested in the growth of maternal and medical ideologies in French-Canada across the twentieth century, shedding light on an issue left largely unexplored until now. Similarly, Baillargeon's focus on the political movements and welfare groups that arose to help Structure and safeguard new procedures and discourses also make this an interesting read for political historians concerned with the rise of state intervention in the home." - Sarah Galletly, University of Strathclyde, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23 (Number 2), 2010

• Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 by Denyse BaillargeonList of TablesList of AcronymsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: A ""Bad Mother"" Called QuebecAn Early DeathDying While Giving LifeChapter 2: A Very National Infant Mortality RateThe Nation in Peril, 1910-1940A National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970Chapter 3: Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is OursThe Ignorance of MothersTeach Over and OverChapter 4: A School for MothersClinics for NewbornsHome CareThe Victorian Order of NursesThe Nurses from the ""Met""The Assistance maternelleServices for Mothers Outside the Major CitiesPrenatal ClinicsPublic Lectures and the Distribution of DocumentsChapter 5: Bitter StrugglesAll for OneGeneral Practitioners and Public Health OfficialsGeneral Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de MontréalDoctors and NursesPhysicians and ""Maternalist"" FeministsChurch and StateChapter 6: The Quebec Mother and ChildCare for Expectant WomenCare for BabiesTo Read While Caring for BabyRelations with Doctors and NursesEpilogue: To Have or Not To HaveAppendix 1: SourcesAppendix 2: Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965NotesBibliographyIndex

Denyse Baillargeon is a professor in the History Department at the Université de Montréal.Donald Wilson joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1970, where he remained until his retirement. A former chair of the Department of French Studies at UW, he is the translator of Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970, by Denyse Baillargeon (WLU Press, 2009) and, with Paul G. Socken, of Aaron: A Novel, by Yves Thériault (WLU Press, 2007).

"Originally published in 2004, Denyse Baillargeon's Un Quibec en mal d'enfonu has finally been translated for an English-speaking audience. Babies for the Nation offers a riveting study of the medicalisation of maternity and maternal discourses in Quebec over the course of the twentieth century, bringing attention to an issue largely elided within existing studies of Quebec. Babies for the Nation is an indispensable resource for social historians interested in the growth of maternal and medical ideologies in French-Canada across the twentieth century, shedding light on an issue left largely unexplored until now. Similarly, Baillargeon's focus on the political movements and welfare groups that arose to help Structure and safeguard new procedures and discourses also make this an interesting read for political historians concerned with the rise of state intervention in the home." - Sarah Galletly, University of Strathclyde, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23 (Number 2), 2010

• Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 by Denyse BaillargeonList of TablesList of AcronymsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: A ""Bad Mother"" Called QuebecAn Early DeathDying While Giving LifeChapter 2: A Very National Infant Mortality RateThe Nation in Peril, 1910-1940A National Dearth of Children, 1940-1970Chapter 3: Let Us Have the Mother and the Child Is OursThe Ignorance of MothersTeach Over and OverChapter 4: A School for MothersClinics for NewbornsHome CareThe Victorian Order of NursesThe Nurses from the ""Met""The Assistance maternelleServices for Mothers Outside the Major CitiesPrenatal ClinicsPublic Lectures and the Distribution of DocumentsChapter 5: Bitter StrugglesAll for OneGeneral Practitioners and Public Health OfficialsGeneral Practitioners and the Assistance maternelle de MontréalDoctors and NursesPhysicians and ""Maternalist"" FeministsChurch and StateChapter 6: The Quebec Mother and ChildCare for Expectant WomenCare for BabiesTo Read While Caring for BabyRelations with Doctors and NursesEpilogue: To Have or Not To HaveAppendix 1: SourcesAppendix 2: Infant Mortality Rates, Canada and the Provinces, 1926-1965NotesBibliographyIndex