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Conference Annual History of Medicine Days (Conference) (19th : 2010 : University of Calgary)

Title The proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010 : the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada / edited by Lisa Petermann, Kelsey Lucyk, and Frank W. Stahnisch.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Presentation slip from Stahnisch inserted. DNLM
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents List of all presentersand their academic affiliations; preface and acknowledgements; list of images; list of tables; applications of science to medicine; a poisoned sleep; history of nursing; medical refugee nurses in britain; history of public health; placating the british; ascourge nomore; illness and disease in history; the history of the tainted bloodscandal in canada; combating sleeping sickness; the role of pharmaceutical companiesin the medicalizationof mental illnesses; stigma and gender; a leper by no other name; history of neurology and psychiatry.
Oral history of dr. c. chan gunnand his neuropathic theoryrecalling the forgotten; eugenics in alberta; editorial note; a family point of view; appendix; waters and syrups; borrowing authority; getting the blood out of your boots; plastic surgery in world war iand today; with yellow signals burning bright, illwinds bring fevers in the night; "in great mercy delivered; keeping healthcare afloat; "married to angelsand among lovely people; from sinner to saint; a license to kill; societal response to choreomaniain the middle ages; the willowbrook hepatitis studies.
Lessons learned from medical eponymsacupuncture; the mandate to heal; a cloak of secrecy; responding to plague; the historical developmentof the cuban health care system; from radioactivityto radiation therapy; "messing with genetics; measuring midwifery; out from under the gaze; life on the edge; apollo's arrows; the bus, the plane and the blind briton; radioactive queers; reagan, regulation, and the fda; immigrant filipino nurses in westerncanada from 1950-2000; eugenics and changing notionsof women's bodies in twentiethcentury alberta.
How descartes' mind-body dualismwill affect your visitto the doctor todaythe summers of fear; medical certainty; "she exhibited masculine protest; medicalizing macduff; a war of words; historical investigation of canada'scord blood banking system; indexes; index of names; list of places.
Summary This volume is the second in a peer-reviewed series of Proceedings Volumes from the Calgary History of Medicine Days conferences, produced by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The History of Medicine Days is a two day, national conference held annually at the University of Calgary, Canada, where undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the US, the UK and Europe give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and health care. The ...
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Subject Medicine -- History -- Congresses.
Medicine.
History.
History of Medicine.
Genre/Form Congress.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Petermann, Lisa.
Lucyk, Kelsey.
Stahnisch, Frank.
University of Calgary. Faculty of Medicine.
Added Title History of Medicine Days Conference 2010
Other Form: Print version: Annual History of Medicine Days (Conference) (19th : 2010 : University of Calgary). Proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010 9781443849531 (DLC) 2013372346 (OCoLC)864741024
ISBN 9781443864473 (electronic book)
1443864471 (electronic book)
9781443849531
1443849537