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 …
Saturday Evening Special Panel: “The Future of Collaboration in Canadian History of Health”
Where it began, I can’t begin to knowing, but with a loose “round-table” feel, panelists took a serious issue and turned it inside out, demonstrating (rather than discussing) the future of …
The conference begins: “Suicides par intoxication médicamenteuse. District de Montréal”
I make it, finally, after waiting at an understaffed Congress information booth for a while, almost at the end of Alexandre Pelletier-Audet’s first talk of the day in the panel on …
CSHM Paterson Lecture 2015: Natalie Davis on Healers in Colonial Suriname
The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine knows how to honour those who made it. The annual keynote lecture is named for G. R. “Pat” Paterson, a very important figure in the history of the society. Paterson was a pharmacist, a historian of pharmacy and the first executive director of the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine.
Considering Funding Part II: SSHRC’s Support for Health Research
Humanities and social sciences scholars in Canada at all levels of research benefit from the support of the predominant Canadian federal funding agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council …
Medical Ottawa: Ottawa’s Smallpox Outbreak of 1911 and the Origins of the Hopewell Isolation Hospital
Porter Island, located on the Rideau River, was the site of a now largely forgotten isolation hospital, Hopewell Hospital, which officially opened its doors in February, 1913 against a background …
Medical Ottawa: The Ottawa Maternity Hospital
While the biological process of birth is largely static, childbirth is a socially mitigated event, which is shaped by trends in different cultures at various times. The social investment in childbirth is evident in the recent news coverage of Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and the birth of her second child, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, included speculation about her use of pain relief, scrutiny of her appearance, and criticism of her swift departure from the hospital.
Coming Up: Semi-Live Blogging from the Ottawa Joint Congress of the CSHM/CAHN
The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing are putting the finishing touches on preparations for their joint congress, to take place …
Considering Funding Part I: Trends in the Discipline of History
Introduction The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding competitions for graduate students and post-doctoral students have become increasingly competitive, leading to discussion about the anxieties of young researchers …
Notes from Medical Montreal (1) : Closure of the Royal Victoria Hospital
An absorbing encounter with Montreal’s medical history these past few days as I get down to brass tacks in the research on medicine and health at Expo 67. The day …
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