| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 462 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the country and around the world. In a very real sense, hospital staff have touched the lives of tens of thousands of patients and their families. SickKids has an equally remarkable history -- from its humble origins in rented houses in Victorian Toronto, the Hospital would flourish to become an influential paediatric institution, pioneering Pasteurization, the Iron Lung for Polio, Pablum, the Mustard Procedure for 'Blue Babies', and the discovery of the gene for Cystic Fibrosis. It would also be the site of two of the most famous medical controversies in modern Canadian history -- the suspected murder of two dozen babies in the early 1980s and, more recently, the whistle-blowing controversy involving the research scientist, Nancy Olivieri. David Wright's History of the Hospital for Sick Children chronicles this remarkable history of the SickKids, including its triumphs and tragedies, its discoveries and dead-ends. In doing so, Wright has crafted a compelling and accessible history of SickKids that anchors Toronto's children's hospital within the broader changes affecting Canadian society and medical practice over the last century."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Images, Tables, and Charts; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Between the Cradle and the Grave; 2 The Sweetest of All Charities; 3 The Paper Tyrant; 4 Club Feet and Crooked Limbs; 5 Milk Sewage; 6 Irradiation; 7 Iron Lungs; 8 Visiting Hours; 9 The Rabbit- Warren; 10 Blue Babies; 11 A Sisterhood of Nursing; 12 Tragedy and Transformation; 13 The Atrium; 14 A Genetic Wilderness; 15 A Hospital without Walls; 16 SickKids International; Epilogue; Further Reading; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q. |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hospital for Sick Children -- History.
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Hospital for Sick Children. |
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History. |
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Hospital for Sick Children.
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Hospital for Sick Children -- Histoire. |
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Children -- Hospitals -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History.
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Children -- Hospitals. |
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Ontario -- Toronto. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wright, David, 1965- SickKids. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016 9781442647237 (OCoLC)950451018 |
| ISBN |
9781442667563 (electronic book) |
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1442667567 (electronic book) |
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9781442647237 |
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144264723X |
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