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Author: Conference on the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine (2Nd : 1981 : Kingston, Ont.)
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard A. Jarrell
Publisher: Thornhill, Ont. : HSTC Publications
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Second Kingston Conference on the History of Canadian Science, Technology and Medicine, held at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, in November 1981, was the second national conference on these new disciplines. It was also the first meeting of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association/Association pour l'histoire de la science et de la technologie au Canada. This volume contains seventeen invited papers read at the conference and highlights current research in such areas as institutional history, social history of medicine, transportation problems, urban technology, the 'selling' of science to Canadians and problems of interpretation in science and technology museums.
Author: Charles G. Roland
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1554587751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.
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Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2000-06-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 088920344X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA continuation of the first volume published in 1984. Mainly devoted to Canadian medical-historical literature published between 1984 and 1998, material dated before 1984 that was not included in volume one is listed and more attention is paid to French language works. Lacking annotation, the bibliography attempts to gather all published work about medical events or persons from Canada, including the former New France, British North America, and the territories of the Hudson's Bay Colony. No effort has been made to describe material locations or to differentiate between "good" and "bad" history. Canadian card order no. C99-932186. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Richard W. Vaudry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1487502192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes's name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the discovery of a congenital heart malformation known as the "Holmes heart." He also played a critical role in the creation of a scientific culture in early-nineteenth-century Montreal. Born in captivity at Cadiz, Spain, Holmes immigrated to Lower Canada in the first decade of the nineteenth century. He arrived in a province that was experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural change as the result of a long process of integration into the British Atlantic world. A transatlantic perspective, therefore, undergirds this biography, from an exploration of how Holmes's family members were participants in an Atlantic world of trade and consumption, to explaining how his educational experiences at Edinburgh and Paris informed his approach to the practice of medicine, medical education, and medical politics. This fascinating biography also examines Holmes's deepest religious convictions, positioning them at the centre of his work and life.
Author: Suzanne Zeller
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0773576371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Carleton Library Series makes available once again Inventing Canada, Suzanne Zeller's classic history of science, land, and nation in Victorian Canada. Zeller argues that the middle decades of the nineteenth century that saw the British North American colonies attempting to establish a transcontinental nation also witnessed the rise of an analytical tradition in science that challenged older conceptions of humanity's relationship with nature and the land. Zeller taps a wide range of archival and published sources to document the prominent place of Victorian science in British North American thought and society. Her focus on the creative functions of Victorian geological, geophysical, and botanical sciences highlights the formation of a Canadian community of scientists, politicians, educators, journalists, businessmen, and others who promoted public support of scientific activities and institutions. By moving beyond the eighteenth-century mechanical ideals that had forged the United States, they reassessed the land and its possibilities to redefine the transcontinental future of a northern variant of the British nation. Inventing Canada is a must-read for anyone interested in the scientific background of Canada's history, including its environmental history.
Author: Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1442698284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died. In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public health governance. Using federal, provincial, and municipal archival sources, newspapers, and newly discovered military records – as well as original epidemiological studies – Humphries' sweeping national study situates the flu within a larger social, political, and military context for the first time. His provocative conclusion is that the 1918 flu crisis had important long-term consequences at the national level, ushering in the ‘modern’ era of public health in Canada.
Author: J. Phillips
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-09-18
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1442693207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada. Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris. The introduction also provides insight into the history of the Osgoode Society and of Oliver's essential role in it, along with an illuminating analysis of the Society's publications program, which produced sixty-six books during his tenure. A fitting tribute to one of the foremost legal historians, this tenth volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law is a significant contribution to the discipline to which Oliver devoted so much.
Author: Alison Li
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780773526099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe intriguing life of J.B. Collip, whose restless drive fuelled his pioneering studies in endocrinology and sustained a successful research enterprise through the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: George Blaine Baker
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1442670061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women’s studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.
