Given the perception that there was a funding overlap between SSHRC and the CIHR when it came to funding health research from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences, …
Considering Funding Part V: Going Forward
The 2009 announcements by SSHRC and the AMS meant that graduate students and post-doctoral fellows experienced a sharp drop in funding for research in the history of health. The graduating …
Best of the Rest III: Natalie Zemon Davis’ Paterson Lecture, and more of what Really Happens at the CSHM
The Paterson Lecture was a big moment in the conference. It came up around the middle of Day 2, with the meeting nicely on the rails and Christine Hallett’s CAHN Hannah keynote …
Champagne and Strawberries to Celebrate New Books in Canuck HM and HN, with Emcee Casey Hurrell
One of the delightful traditions of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine is the annual champagne and strawberries reception, hosted and organized by the Hannah Chair in the …
A Response to Margaret Wente, or Why Congress is Good for Canada
Every year around this time, some self-loathing beneficiary of the great Canadian public university system who has gone on to be a paid flatterer of corporate and political power produces …
Keywords and Chronologies – Conference Break-down and Reflections
I recently returned home after three days at the CSHM-CAHN joint conference, held from May 30 – June 1 at the University of Ottawa under the umbrella of the 2015 …
Best of the Conference Rest II: The Segall Prize for best grad student paper
With a bit of time and perspective I’ve realized that, rather than a failure on my part to semi-live blog, the joint CSHM/CAHN conference resisted semi-live blogging by being too good and …
Canada’s Greatest Healer? A few more nominations from the conference floor
Well, we definitely didn’t get anywhere with our frivolous Twitter contest to get historians of medicine and nursing to nominate and choose “Canada’s Greatest Healer”. Not a single nomination from anyone outside …
Best of the Rest of the CSHM/CAHN Conference I: Hallett’s Hannah Lecture
As the conference has now ended with me having posted exactly three reports, I guess I have to declare this effort at semi-live blogging a semi-failure, but I’ll try to …
Considering Funding Part IV: The AMS
Associated Medical Services Inc. (AMS) is a Canadian charitable organization. The AMS supports “the history of medicine and healthcare, health professional education, compassionate care and bioethics.” The AMS was a …
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