Medicine: General Issues

In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation...

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set arou...

Historically, the Supreme Court of Canada has avoided direct intervention in health care policy-making. This posture changed dramatically with the ...

Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced...

The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. 36 Steps on the Road to...

What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mo...

The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. 36 Steps on the Road to...

The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.P. Thompson was a passionate advocate of science education whose...

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set arou...

Based on extensive research including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory Marchildon and Renee Torgerson have produced...

The contribution of one of the most illustrious investigators of heart disease is revisited and updated with colour images.

This book explores the social, political and theoretical underpinnings of the men's health field. Written by experts in the field, it provides a co...

The Evidence-based Practice Workbook is an ideal tool for use by GPs, medical specialists and other healthcare professionals to learn the concepts ...

Victorian Britain was the world’s industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

Learn the basics of the five core areas of community and public health Introduction to Community and Public Health, 2nd Edition covers the basics i...

On 25 January 1849, Punch responded to an event that took place in upstate New York with a rhyme about 'excellent Miss Blackwell!'. On that day, El...

For more than a century the Canadian Red Cross Society has provided help and comfort to vulnerable people at home and abroad. In the first detailed...

This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new resea...

This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history...

As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committ...

Analysing the SARS crisis to help meet the threat of future pandemics

A revealing biography of one of the architects of medical education in Canada.

An up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biosurveillance techniques With the worldwide awareness of bioterrorism and drug-resistant infectious...

A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, "Healing the Land and the Nation" traces the relationships between disease, ...