[Book Review] The historiography of Canadian health care: An update

• Main Author: Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Published: Acadiensis Press 1997
• Subjects: Medicine > History > Canada > Book reviews; Medical care > History > Canada > Book reviews; Newfoundland; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Baffin Island; Canada; Macleod; Breakwater; Baffin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/3092

Comparative book review of seven titles on the topic of Canadian medical history: "Surgeons, Smallpox and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799" by Allan Everett Marble (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993); "Petticoat Doctors: The First Forty Years of Women in Medicine at Dalhousie University by Enid Johnson MacLeod (Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1990); "Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience" by John Crellin (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994); "Through Northern Eyes" by James Graham Gillan (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1991); "Out of Mind, Out of Sight: A History of the Waterford Hospital" by Patricia O'Brien (St. John's: Breakwater Books, 1989); "Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life" by Jacalyn Duffin (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993); and "Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990" by Kathryn McPherson (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996). This is an electronic version of an article published as: Warsh, C.K. (1997). The historiography of Canadian health care: An update. Acadiensis, 26(2), 137-143. Acadiensis is published by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick and is available online at: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/acadiensis. This article is available at: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/12059/12903. https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/3092/Warsh.Acadiensis.26.2.pdf?sequence=4