McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society – serie
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Ethnopsychiatry
Av Henri F. Ellenberger, Emmanuel Delille
Häftad, 2020
512 kr
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What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would go on …
Ambulance on Safari
The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile
Häftad, 2020
498 kr
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During the apartheid era, thousands of South African political activists, militants, and refugees fled arrest by crossing into neighbouring southern African countries. Although they had escaped political oppression, many required medical attention during their period of exile. An Ambulance on …
Foreign Practices
Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare
Av Sasha Mullally, David Wright
Häftad, 2020
512 kr
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When the CBC organized a national contest to identify the greatest Canadian of all time, few were surprised when the father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas, won by a large margin: Medicare is central to Canadian identity. Yet focusing on Douglas and his fight for social justice obscures other important …
Challenging Choices
Canada's Population Control in the 1970s
Häftad, 2020
454 kr
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Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversation …
In the Public Good
Eugenics and Law in Ontario
Inbunden, 2021
1507 kr
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In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and so-called feeble-mindedness, along with many other conditions, could be eliminated by selective human breeding and other measures. The provinces of …
In the Public Good
Eugenics and Law in Ontario
Häftad, 2021
454 kr
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In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and so-called feeble-mindedness, along with many other conditions, could be eliminated by selective human breeding and other measures. The provinces of …
Smile Gap
A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality
Inbunden, 2022
1507 kr
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As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of them …
Smile Gap
A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality
Häftad, 2022
396 kr
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As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change the appearance of smiles were largely unknown. Today, many Canadians enjoy straight, white teeth and far more of them …
Transforming Medical Education
Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning, and Belonging in Medicine
Inbunden, 2022
757 kr
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In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education. The essays in this collection offer new insights into the deep histories of these processes, across time …
Patterns of Plague
Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750
Av Lori Jones
Inbunden, 2022
1507 kr
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For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did.Through an …
Patterns of Plague
Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750
Av Lori Jones
Häftad, 2022
454 kr
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For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did.Through an …
Boundaries of Medicare
Public Health Care beyond the Canada Health Act
Av Katherine Fierlbeck, Gregory P. Marchildon
Inbunden, 2023
1243 kr
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While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act. This is the first book to explain the nature of these boundary health services, why they exist, and how to navigate them in practice. The …
Boundaries of Medicare
Public Health Care Beyond the Canada Health Act
Av Katherine Fierlbeck, Gregory P. Marchildon
Häftad, 2023
354 kr
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While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act. This is the first book to explain the nature of these boundary health services, why they exist, and how to navigate them in practice. The …
Reimagining Illness
Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Heather Meek
Inbunden, 2023
974 kr
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In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common …
Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750
Inbunden, 2024
1276 kr
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From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsible for the …
Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750
Häftad, 2024
396 kr
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From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in England examines the factors responsible for the …
Accidental History of Canada
Av Megan J. Davies, Geoffrey L. Hudson
Inbunden, 2024
1276 kr
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Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomena of risk, upset, and misfortune have been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller-scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid …
Accidental History of Canada
Av Megan J. Davies, Geoffrey L. Hudson
Häftad, 2024
440 kr
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Although Canadian history has no shortage of stories about disasters and accidents, the phenomena of risk, upset, and misfortune have been largely overlooked by historians. Disasters get their due, but not so the smaller-scale accident where fate is more intimate. Yet such events often have a vivid …
Echoes of Care
Deafness in Modern Britain
Häftad, 2025
454 kr
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More than one billion people live with hearing loss, making deafness one of the most common disabilities in the world. Despite the size of deaf communities and their rich cultural histories, in the Western world deafness is perceived primarily as a medical problem requiring a fix. In …
Great Minds in Despair
The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989
Inbunden, 2025
847 kr
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The twentieth century witnessed two devastating world wars that led to the exodus of millions of people. Counted among them were hundreds of neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists from Nazi Germany and its surrounding countries who were forced to emigrate in the 1930s and 1940s. Many of them …
Behead and Cure
Humanitarian Work in the Vietnam War
Häftad, 2025
339 kr
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The war in Vietnam was an ethical minefield for the medical humanitarians who volunteered to treat the injured and dying. The United States government used humanitarian aid as a counterinsurgency strategy and weapon of war. The Vietnamese people could not understand why the Americans and their …
Wilful Neglect
The Federal Response to Tuberculosis among First Nations, 1867–1945
Av Jane Thomas
Häftad, 2025
396 kr
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Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century. Yet despite growing knowledge about the disease and interventions that would slow its spread, tuberculosis deaths among First Nations in Canada …
Women, Gender, and Anatomy in Enlightenment France
Inbunden, 2026
632 kr
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By the mid-eighteenth century, anatomy was one of medicine’s most dynamic fields, dominated by men but reliant on women’s bodies and knowledge. This dependence gave women a complicated and often overlooked role in the development of modern medicine.Women, Gender, and Anatomy in Enlightenment France …
Health of Us All
A History of Nursing Education at McMaster University
Inbunden, 2027
469 kr
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Since its founding in 1946, with enrollment of fewer than twenty students, the McMaster School of Nursing has grown into a leader in nursing education, graduating thousands of nurses and earning international recognition for its contributions to nursing education, research, and practice. The Health …
Long Way from Home
The Tuberculosis Epidemic Among the Inuit
Häftad, 1997
430 kr
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Based on recollections of patients, interviews with participants in the government programs, available literature and statistics, and records of the Northern Affairs Program, Grygier examines the programs for the Inuit in all parts of Canada. She also explores the history of tuberculosis in Canada, …
Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Inbunden, 2001
883 kr
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs …
Committed to the State Asylum
Insanity and Society in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario
Häftad, 2001
430 kr
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Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province. He considers Canada?s pioneering institutional efforts …
Architecture in the Family Way
Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900
Häftad, 2001
426 kr
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Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams reveals that middle-class houses were …
Ontario Cancer Institute
Successes and Reverses at Sherbourne Street
Inbunden, 2003
990 kr
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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 research.
J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada
Extracts and Enterprise
Av Alison Li
Inbunden, 2003
1163 kr
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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 teams of professional scientists and dozens of laboratories in universities, government, and industry. J.B. Collip - …
