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Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

By Charles G. Roland
Subjects: Medical, History

This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.

The One Best Way?

By Aleck Ostry & Tasnim Nathoo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

Bridging Two Peoples

By Allan Sherwin
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern ...

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh & Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, Political Science, Social Policy

From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or ...

China Interrupted

By Sonya Grypma
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Military History, Religion

China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment ...

Doctors, Patients, and Society

Edited by Donald E. Larsen & Martin S. Staum
Subjects: Medical, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Science

What moral and legal issues are involved in the physician-patient relationship? What is bioethics? What social and environmental factors are involved in health and disease? An interdisciplinary workshop ...

Florence Nightingale on Health in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, History
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale’s forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Medical, Public Health
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale’s more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health ...

Florence Nightingale on Wars and the War Office

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume’s recounting of Nightingale’s famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive ...

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: History, Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental ...