Published October, 2006
By Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman
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Presents an analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," this work examines how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS.

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Published October, 2006
By Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman
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Presents an analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," this work examines how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS.

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Published August, 2006
By David Wright, James Moran and James E. Moran
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Challenges generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period since colonialism, this work examines such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, and the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals.

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Published August, 2006
By David Wright, James Moran and James E. Moran
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An illuminating study of the complex history of madness.

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Published August, 2006
By Maude Abbott, Richard S. Fraser and Maude E Abbott
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The American Heart Association published Maude Abbott's "Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease" in 1936. This work includes a short history of Abbott's life and how she came to create the Atlas, including a discussion of the material she used for her 1934 London Exhibit, which served as the basis for the Atlas.

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Published March, 2006
By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Ivy Bourgeault
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Published March, 2006
By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
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In "Push," Ivy Lynn Bourgeault details the struggles to integrate midwifery in Ontario - the first Canadian province to regulate the profession.

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Published February, 2006
By Sir William Osler and Yuzo Ota
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An intimate protrait of a Japanese woman that overturns stereotypes about Japan

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Published February, 2006
By Norman Giesbrecht, Andree Demers and Evert A. Lindquist
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This book describes the evolution of a number of alcohol policies in Canada at the federal and provincial level between 1980 and 2000, using qualitative research methods.

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Published January, 2006
By Richard L. Cruess, Joseph Hanaway and James Darragh
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The continuing saga of a great medical school.

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