Women, health and nation Canada and the United States since 1945

"How have women in Canada and the US experienced and influenced health care since 1945? Did Canada's national health insurance system lead to fundamental differences in health care? Women, Health, and Nation examines North American women's engagement with their health systems and asks to what extent national citizenship has shaped women's health."@en
"This book examines North American women's engagement with their health systems and asks to what extent national citizenship has shaped women's health. Authors provide a much-needed analysis of the dynamic decades after 1945, when both Canada and the United States began using federal funds to expand health-care access and biomedical research and authority reached new heights. (Midwest)."
"A collection that examines how national differences in health care have influenced women's lives and informed feminist politics in North America. Focusing on the dynamic decades after 1945, when both the US and Canada began using federal funds to expand access to health care, this volume covers a wide range of issues, including childbirth, abortion and sterilization, palliative care, pharmaceutical regulation, immigration, and Native health care."