“By Their Own Efforts”: First Nations Health Policy in Canada, 1945-1980
Lucy’s project examines the development and implementation of First Nations health policy during Canada’s post-war period of integration. It analyzes how the idea of race and the objectives of settler colonialism impacted debates about jurisdiction, affected the nature of health services offered to First Nations peoples, and limited the creation of meaningful partnerships with First Nations leaders.
Read MoreNavigating Canadian healthcare before Medicare
Ceilidh Auger-Day researches how Canadians made individual health-related decisions when facing injury or illness between 1900-1940.
Read MoreThe therapeutic use of cinema to treat mentally ill patients (1895-1950)
Martin Beaulieu examines the therapeutic use of cinema by the mental health professions, trying to understand why and how the cinema was considered a therapeutic tool to treat mental disorders.
Read MoreHealth under occupation: Haitian encounters with U.S. imperial medicine, 1915-1934
Matthew Davidson examines U.S. military occupation in Haiti and the multiple ways it impacted Haiti’s public health.
Read MoreThe effect of tuberculosis on men during and after the First World War
Eric Story examines the history of tuberculosis in the era of the First World War.
Read MoreCon(tra)ceptualizing care: Birth control centres, feminist models of healthcare, and reproductive politics in Southern Alberta, 1969-1979
Following the provincial implementation of medicare and the federal decriminalization of birth control in 1969, feminist birth control centres took up the provision of reproductive health services and education throughout the 1970s in the province of Alberta. Activists at these birth control centres created feminist models of healthcare and provided important health services locally and…
Read MoreMaking bodies, making kin: The history of medical illustrators in North America
As a female-dominated field, the invisibility of medical illustrators as knowledge creation agents contributes to the problematic perception of medical images as unfiltered representations of the scientific truth of bodies.
Read MoreFalse faces: Examining the cultural history of cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery, much like its effect on the bodies it transforms, is highly skilled at obscuring its age and origins. As an organized specialty, it is nearly a century old, and many of the procedures it employs are much older still, and yet cosmetic surgery somehow feels perpetually current and new, held up as an…
Read MoreHealing the body to save the soul: Jesuit medicine in 17th century Asia
How to preserve and restore health while evangelizing overseas? Since its inception, one of the primary activities of the Society of Jesus was to send its members on evangelical missions to all corners of the world. As many Jesuits had difficulties adapting to the Asian climate and helplessly watched their bodies succumb to unfamiliar diseases, they…
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