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Women, Health, and Nation
A rich collection exploring how national health-care differences have influenced women's lives and informed feminist politics since 1945.
Bodily Subjects
From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, …
J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada
In the early years of the twentieth century medical research in Canada was the job of a select few. By mid-century it had grown into a systematic, large-scale venture that involved …
Psychedelic Prophets
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) was a …
Infection of the Innocents
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries congenital syphilis was a major cause of infant mortality in France but mercury, the preferred treatment for the disease, could not be …
The Ontario Cancer Institute
An in-depth look at the Ontario Cancer Institute's growth from a small hospital dedicated to radiation treatment to a large, internationally famous centre for cancer treatment and …
An Element of Hope
The first national study of the history of cancer in Canada.
The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s
Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League …
The Struggle to Serve
A timely examination of Canada's hospital experience.
Labour in the Laboratory
A rich portrait of the rise of Canada's third largest health care profession.
Small Matters
What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical …
A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
A fascinating glimpse into the world of Civil War America through the experience of a young Canadian surgeon