Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of medicine. Show all posts
Friday, May 16, 2025

Prize Watch: The CHA Prizes for best books

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The Canadian Historical Association is announcing its 2025 prizes , including this list for best scholarly book in Canadian history (in Engl...
Monday, December 21, 2020

William Osler and Rick Hill

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I used to have a copy of Michael Bliss's biography of William Osler , but it was one of the casualties of a big downsizing of my library...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Pandemic history readings

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Canada's History , nicely ahead of the game, has a lively 2006 piece about Canada's experience with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1...
Monday, November 18, 2019

History of American health

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There is a heartbreaking story in a recent New Yorker that speaks volumes about the unhappy state of the United States. As the war on ab...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Bliss on Banting at the DCB

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I see that this week's featured biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online is of Frederick Banting, who died 21 Febru...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Book Notes: Wright on Sick Kids Hospital

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When our daughter learned that there was a hospital just for children, she was excited.  Just for kids!  Could she go? Her mother and I...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Mad Dukes and Englishmen

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Rabid? People keep doing research and spoiling some of the best stories in the process. I was always kinda charmed by the story that ...
Monday, July 08, 2013

History of Depression, not the economic kind.

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Edward Shorter, historian of medicine at the University of Toronto, a historian who teaches in a faculty of medicine, gets some attention ...