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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pioneer in kidney transplantation in Canada in the late 1950s, Dr. John Dossetor was faced with making many ethical decisions in his ground-breaking research and practice in nephrology so it was with ...

Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary ...

La médecine et la santé sont au cœur de nos vies et de nos discours, certes, mais les interrogations entourant le rôle de la première dans la seconde restent nombreuses. C’est de cette relation ...