| Description |
1 online resource (506 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Michael Bliss and the Delicate Balance of Individual and Society -- Appendix: Doctoral Dissertations Supervised -- THE CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF MICHAEL BLISS -- 1 Growth, Progress, and the Quest for Salvation: Confessions of a Medical Historian -- 2 Inspiration as Instruction: Michael Bliss as a Graduate Adviser, 1989-1994 -- 3 Michael Bliss in the Media -- POLITICS AND BUSINESS -- 4 Constructing Ignorance: Epistemic and Military Failures in Britain and Canada during the Seven Years War -- 5 Common Knowledge: Theory, Concept, and the Prosaic in Making the Tariff of 1859 -- 6 Business, Culture, and the History of News, 1870-1930: A Case Study of the 'Political/Commercial' Dichotomy -- FAMILY AND RELIGION -- 7 'I thank God ... that I am proud of my boy': Fatherhood and Religion in the Gordon Family -- 8 Casual Fornicators, Delinquent Dads, Young Lovers, and Family Champions: Men in Canadian Adoption Circles -- 9 Writing Religion: Some Influences on Twentieth-Century Developments in Canadian Religious History -- HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY -- 10 Personality, Politics, and Canadian Public Health: The Origins of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, 1888-1917 -- 11 Defining Disability, Limiting Liability: The Care of Thalidomide Victims in Canada -- 12 'Comfort, Security, Dignity': Home Care for Canada's Aging Veterans, 1977-2004 -- MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE -- 13 Wondrous Transformations: Endocrinology after Insulin -- 14 A History of Lobotomy in Ontario -- 15 Limitations Exposed: Willem J. Kolff and His Contentious Pursuit of a Mechanical Heart -- 16 History, Memory, and Twentieth-Century Medical Life Writing: Unpacking a Cape Breton Country Doctor's Black Bag -- Bibliography of Michael Bliss -- Contributors |
| Summary |
Going beyond a collection of dedicatory essays, this volume explores the wider subject of writing social and medical history in Canada in the late twentieth century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Bliss, Michael, 1941-2017.
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| SUBJECT |
Bliss, Michael, 1941-2017 fast |
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Medicine -- Canada -- History
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Historiography
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Medicine
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Religion
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Social conditions
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Canada -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019352
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Canada -- Historiography
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Canada -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019309
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Canada -- Religion -- History
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Li, Alison
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McKellar, Shelley
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| ISBN |
9781442688025 |
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1442688025 |
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