Published January, 2010
By Michael Worboys and Flurin Condrau
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One-third of the world's population is infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten per cent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. This title focuses on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engages in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine.

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Published September, 2009
By Geoffrey Tesson, Geoffrey Hudson and Roger Strasser
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The Northern Ontario School of Medicine provides a blueprint for those interested in an innovative approach to medical education. This collection provides an account of the challenges and rewards faced by those who insisted on creating a patient-centred, community-based, and culturally sensitive learning environment for the physicians of tomorrow.

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Published April, 2009
By Ronald Rompkey
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Tells the story of British doctor Wilfred Grenfell's education, his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of hygiene and public health. This title shows that Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial culture. It provides a picture of the man himself.

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Published April, 2009
By Malcolm G. Taylor, Allan M. Maslove and Allan Maslove
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Medicare in Canada is not only this country's most treasured social programme, it has become a defining national characteristic. This book describes the emergence of Medicare. It identifies the crucial contribution of political courage and leadership in achieving a single-payer, publicly funded system.

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Published April, 2009
By Malcolm G. Taylor, Allan M. Maslove and Allan Maslove
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Medicare in Canada is not only this country's most treasured social programme, it has become a defining national characteristic. This book describes the emergence of Medicare. It identifies the crucial contribution of political courage and leadership in achieving a single-payer, publicly funded system.

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Published April, 2009
By William Boyce, Jennifer Roche and Diane Davies
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Why youth health policy lacks coherence.

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Published March, 2009
By Alain Ehrenberg
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Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? This book investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry.

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Published October, 2008
By Ian Robertson and Ian Ross Robertson
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Sir Andrew Macphail (1864-1938), a professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, was best-known as an essayist of international renown and founding editor of "The University Magazine" and the "Canadian Medical Association Journal". This book displays Macphail's legacy as a cultural leader in English-speaking Montreal.

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Published October, 2008
By John Burgess and John H Burgess
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Chronicles the author's remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad, to eventual roles as a professor of medicine and director of Cardiology at Montreal General Hospital. This title presents a spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.

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Published June, 2008
By Janet Golden, Cynthia R. Comacchio, George Weisz and Cynthia Comacchio
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A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.

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