Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss : Figuring the Social.

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heaman, Elsbeth A.
Otros Autores: Li, Alison, McKellar, Shelley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Bliss, Michael, > 1941-2017.
Bliss, Michael, > 1941-2017
Medicine > Canada > History.
Médecine > Canada > Histoire.
Historiography
Medicine
Religion
Social conditions
Canada > Social conditions.
Canada > Historiography.
Canada > History.
Canada > Religion > History.
Canada > Conditions sociales.
Canada > Histoire.
Canada > Religion > Histoire.
Canada
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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