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A Different Track

By (author) Alexandra Kitty
Categories: History of medicine

This fascinating book looks at the largely unknown history of hospital trains, which wound their way across the scarred landscapes of war-weary Europe, and the doctors and nurses who risked their lives ...

Medicare's Histories

Medicare is arguably Canada’s most valued social program. As federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century, Medicare’s Histories brings together leading social and health historians ...

Radical Medicine

By (author) Esyllt Jones
Categories: Medicolegal issues

The origins of medicare have long been told as a simple and satisfying story: a good idea, born in Saskatchewan, championed by our Greatest Canadian, Tommy Douglas, embraced by Canadians, and now standing ...

Strange Trips

This book examines the boundaries between recreational and medicinal drugs in the eyes of the public and law. Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor’s black bag. Changing marijuana ...

Separate Beds

By (author) Maureen K. Lux
Categories: History of science

“Canada has a painful history of racially segregated hospitals that were intended to isolate and institutionalize Aboriginal people seen as a menace and danger to the nation. Separate Beds is a sophisticated, ...

Healing Histories

Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada’s indigenous communities and on the federal government’s Indian Health Services. ...

Baba's Kitchen Medicines

By (author) Michael Mucz
Categories: Social and cultural history

Michael Mucz’s prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba’s Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada’s ...

Dreams and Due Diligence

By (author) Joe Sornberger
Categories: History of medicine

In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the ...

On All Frontiers

Nursing has a long and varied history in Canada. Since the founding of the first hospital by the Augustine nuns in 1637, nurses have contributed greatly to Canadians’ quality of life. On All Frontiers ...

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By (author) Kirsty E. Duncan
Categories: History of science

In 1918, medical science was at a loss to explain the Spanish flu epidemic, which swept the world in three great waves and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number ...