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 …
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 …
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.
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 …