Description |
1 online resource (x, 168 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map, portraits |
Series |
Footprints series ; 8 |
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Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 8.
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Contents |
Contents -- Colour section follows -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Long Road to an MD -- 2 Expanding Horizons during Postgraduate Training -- 3 Return to North America -- 4 Cardiologist at the Montreal General Hospital and McGill University -- 5 My Road to the Presidency of the Royal College -- 6 Doctor to the North -- 7 History of the Eastern Canadian Inuit -- 8 History of Eastern Canadian Inuit Health Care -- 9 Congenital Heart Disease -- 10 Valvular Heart Disease -- 11 Infective Endocarditis -- 12 Pulmonary Heart Disease -- 13 Cardiomyopathy |
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14 Coronary Artery Disease15 Auyuittuq Park: An Arctic Holiday -- 16 The Future -- 17 Transitions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
Summary |
For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-163) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Burgess, John H., 1933-2021
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SUBJECT |
Burgess, John H., 1933- |
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Burgess, John H., 1933-2021 fast |
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Medical care -- Canada, Northern
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Cardiologists -- Canada, Northern -- Biography
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Inuit -- Medical care -- Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
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Inuit -- Medical care -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
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Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
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Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
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Heart -- Diseases -- Canada, Northern
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Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Canada, Northern
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Cardiovascular system -- Diseases.
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Eskimos.
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Inuit.
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Physicians.
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Cardiovascular Diseases
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Health Status
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Inuit
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Physicians
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physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart.
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MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Physicians
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Inuit
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Eskimos
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Cardiologists
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Cardiovascular system -- Diseases
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Heart -- Diseases
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Inuit -- Health and hygiene
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Medical care
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SUBJECT |
Canada |
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Northern Canada
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Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
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Québec -- Nunavik
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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Autobiographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780773574533 |
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0773574530 |
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9780773577497 |
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0773577491 |
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