Last year I found a very interesting film at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). I was researching the topic of medicine and health at Expo 67, the Montreal International and Universal …
Joint UWindsor – UMichigan Colloquium: Knowledge Networks and Health Innovation
View PostAAHM Deadline Alert: Canuck Medical Historians Should Attend Minneapolis 2016
The Call for Papers was long ago issued for the 2016 American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, which will take place in the great city of Minneapolis from …
CSHM 2015 Conference Report
The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine met under fair to middling skies on the urban campus of Canada’s great bilingual University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa from 30 May-June 1. …
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 …
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