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A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osle...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Li, Alison, 1963-, Heaman, E. A. (Elsbeth A.), 1964-, McKellar, Shelley, Bliss, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Temas:
Bliss, Michael.
Bliss, Michael, > 1941-
Bliss, Michael, > 1941-2017
Medicine > Canada > History.
Médecine > Canada > Histoire.
Religion > Histoire > Canada.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Historiography
Medicine
Religion
Social conditions
Canada > Social conditions.
Canada > History.
Canada > Religion.
Canada > Historiography.
Canada > History > 1963-
Canada > Conditions sociales.
Canada > Histoire.
Canada > Historiographie.
Canada
Electronic books.
Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / John Fraser and Elizabeth MacCallum
  • Introduction: Michael Bliss and the Delicate Balance of Individual and Society / E.A. Heaman
  • Appendix. Doctoral Dissertations Supervised by Michael Bliss
  • Career and Influence of Michael Bliss
  • 1. Growth, Progress, and the Quest for Salvation: Confessions of a Medical Historian / Michael Bliss
  • 2. Inspiration as Instruction: Michael Bliss as a Graduate Adviser, 1989-1994 / Richard White
  • 3. Michael Bliss in the Media / John Turley-Ewart
  • Politics and Business
  • 4. Constructing Ignorance: Epistemic and Military Failures in Britain and Canada during the Seven Years War / E.A. Heaman
  • 5. Common Knowledge: Theory, Concept, and the Prosaic in Making the Tariff of 1859 / Ben Forster
  • 6. 'Business, Culture, and the History of News', 1870-1930: A Case Study of the 'Political/Commercial' Dichotomy / Gene Allen
  • Family and Religion
  • 7. 'I thank God ... that I am proud of my boy': Fatherhood and Religion in the Gordon Family / David B. Marshall
  • 8. Casual Fornicators, Delinquent Dads, Young Lovers, and Family Champions: Men in Canadian Adoption Circles / Veronica Strong-Boag
  • 9. Writing Religion: Some Influences on Twentieth-Century Developments in Canadian Religious History / Brian F. Hogan
  • Health and Public Policy
  • 10. Personality, Politics, and Canadian Public Health: The Origins of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, 1888-1917 / Christopher J. Rutty
  • 11. Defining Disability, Limiting Liability: The Care of Thalidomide Victims in Canada / Barbara Claw
  • 12. 'Comfort, Security, Dignity': Home Care for Canada's Aging Veterans, 1977-2004 / James Struthers
  • Medical Science and Practice
  • 13. Wondrous Transformations: Endocrinology after Insulin / Alison Li
  • 14. History of Lobotomy in Ontario / Geoffrey Reaume
  • 15. Limitations Exposed: Willem J. Kolff and His Contentious Pursuit of a Mechanical Heart / Shelley McKellar
  • 16. History, Memory, and Twentieth-Century Medical Life Writing: Unpacking a Cape Breton Country Doctor's Black Bag / Sasha Mullally.

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