The history of medicine and healthcare : selected papers / Lesley Bolton, William J. Pratt, and Frank W. Stahnisch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stahnisch, Frank, editor.

Pratt, William J., editor.

Bolton, Lesley, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History--Congresses.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, [2021]

Summary:

This volume brings together such topics as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics in history, military medicine, children, women and changing gender roles in modern medicine, public health history, and a special communication on the history of Canadian hospital workers. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian, Dr Peter L. Twohig, Canadian Research Chair in the History of the Atlantic World at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is well-illustrated with images and diagrams pertaining to the history of medicine.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of all Presenters and their Academic Affiliations

Preface and Acknowledgements

History of Psychiatry

The Metamorphosis of Psychiatric Language and the Emergence of the Schizophrenia Concept (1902-1911)

Keynote Lecture

A "Most Distressing Shortage"

Biomedical Ethics in History

A History of Military Human Experimentation and Chemical Weapons Research in Canada Shaped by the Biomedical Research Relationship of Canadian and American Militaries

A Review of the Increasing Use of the Hippocratic Oath at North American Medical Schools in the 20th Century

Military Medicine

Pioneers in Canadian Plastic Surgery Education

Children, Women, and Changing Gender Roles in Modern Medicine

The Forgotten World of Children's Teeth

A Historical Exploration of the Professional Development and Midwife/ Doula Divide in the Modern Canadian Health Care System

Public Health History

Radium Dial Workers

Special Communications in the History of Medicine and Health Care

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Education, Expertise, Experience and the Making of Hospital Workers in Canada, 1920-1960

Appendix

Index of Persons

Index of Places.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5275-6770-2

OCLC:

1244627538