Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Cores/Peripheries - Rural/Remote: Medicine, Health-Care Delivery and the North -- Part I: Remote Medicine and the State -- 1 Medical Services in a Northern Russian Province, 1864-1917 -- 2 Changing Minority Culture: Health Services and Health Promotion in Northern Norway, 1900-50s -- 3 The Sami, Sami-ness and the Staffing of Health Services in Northern Norway, 1960s-2001 -- 4 Foreshadowing the Future: Health Services in Remote Areas, the National Health Service and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1948-74 -- Part II: Doctors and Doctoring in Remote Areas -- 5 A Country Doctor: Health Care in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Swedish Remote Area -- 6 Medical Reports from the 1800s and What they Tell about Health Conditions, Population and the Work of Doctors in Peripheral Norway -- 7 'Medicine is Here to Stay': Rural Medical Practice, the Northern Frontier and Modernization in 1930s' Newfoundland -- 8 Policing Practitioners on the Periphery: Elite Physicians and Profession-Building in a Bicultural Province, 1920-39 -- Part III: Women, Health Care and the Practice of Medicine -- 9 The West Greenlandic Midwives 1820-1920: Mediators between their Compatriots and Danish Doctors -- 10 Delivering Health Care in Rural New Brunswick: Outpost Nursing in the Twentieth Century -- 11 Mother's Medicine: Women, Home and Health in the Peace River Region of British Columbia, Canada, 1920-40 -- 12 Call of the Wild: Public Health Nursing in Post-War Lapland -- Notes -- Index.