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? This volume 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. Focusing on a wide range of issues -...
How have women in Canada and the US experienced and influenced health care since 1945? Did Canada's national health insurance system lead to fundament...
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? This volume 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. Focusing on a wide range of issues -...
How have women in Canada and the US experienced and influenced health care since 1945? Did Canada's national health insurance system lead to fundament...
Spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, this publication details the lives and survival strategies of elderly people as they struggle to remain independent. Megan Davies opens the door to the institutional world of the old age home, demonstrating how the legacy of the poor law and the demands of the emerging welfare state worked together to shape residential care facilities for seniors. She looks at the experiences of elderly people on British Columbia's economic and social margins both before and after the advent of old age pensions, analysing the myriad strategies used by the...
Spanning the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, this publication details the lives and survival strategies of elderly people as they struggle to rema...
The first half of the 20th century witnessed the creation of Canada's modern hospital system. In an era of government cutbacks in health services and comparisons with a more privatized American system, W.G. Godfrey offers an examination of Canada's hospital experience, showing that it was a slow journey from largely privately funded to increasingly governmentally funded institutions. Godfrey focuses on one hospital and the communities it served but also provides an overview of local, provincial and federal hospital policies, revising the rose-tinted picture of public and private acceptance...
The first half of the 20th century witnessed the creation of Canada's modern hospital system. In an era of government cutbacks in health services and ...
Dr John Mackieson practised medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1821 to 1885. Island Doctor offers an intimate look at the work of this ordinary physician and a fascinating glimpse of medicine in the 19th century. Based on a study of two casebooks, which include Dr Mackieson records for 257 patients with a variety of illnesses seen from 1826 to 1858 and 115 patients with mental illness seen from 1868 to 1874, two manuscripts and a diary, David Shephard illustrates the wide variety of representative cases in Dr Mackieson's career and situates his work in the context of medical practice at...
Dr John Mackieson practised medicine in Prince Edward Island from 1821 to 1885. Island Doctor offers an intimate look at the work of this ordinary phy...
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 - skilled both as a bench scientist and an entrepreneur - played a leading role in this transformation. In J.B. Collip and the Development of Medical Research in Canada Alison Li details how Collip leapt into prominence in 1921-22 as part of the team at the University of Toronto that isolated insulin....
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, lar...
Documents the author's daily experiences, from the beginning of her military training in 1915 to her return from Europe in 1918. This title records the sights and sounds and smells of First World War. It shows her personality and passion for her work and offers a perspective on the Canadian contribution to the war effort.
Documents the author's daily experiences, from the beginning of her military training in 1915 to her return from Europe in 1918. This title records th...
Medical laboratory workers play a crucial role in the health care system, but are often hidden from public view. Unlike many previous histories of Canadian health care, "Labour in the Laboratory" offers an intimate portrait of the women (and a few men) who laboured at the bench. In a detailed analysis of local hospital records, membership records, newspapers, professional health care journals, and other sources, Peter Twohig shows that the history of health care looks different when seen from the perspective of workers other than physicians or nurses. "Labour in the Laboratory" is also about...
Medical laboratory workers play a crucial role in the health care system, but are often hidden from public view. Unlike many previous histories of Can...
In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and Lady Eaton, helped bring Canadian medical education into the twentieth century. Marianne Fedunkiw charts how this significant gift affected the universities, their instructors, and teaching. Fedunkiw focuses on three recipients - the University of Toronto (the leading Ontario medical school), McGill University ("Canada's medical school"), and Dalhousie University (the struggling Maritime school) - to demonstrate how the money made possible the...
In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and L...
In 1860, inmates built a stone wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continuing role in historical attempts to deal with mental health, injecting tragic, almost gothic overtones of geographical isolation, medical experimentation, and social control into public perceptions of the field. In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the...
In 1860, inmates built a stone wall around the Toronto Lunatic Asylum to separate themselves from prying eyes. The lunatic asylum has played a continu...
