Essays in honour of Michael Bliss : figuring the social /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2008.
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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.