Epidemiology Ad Nauseum: Risk, Reasoning, and Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Jennifer’s project highlights the highly contingent nature of HG risk and draws attention to the specific science-society configurations that have impacted how women’s symptoms have been both understood and managed by Canadian healthcare professionals over time.
Read MoreThe Global Challenge of Cholera in the Nineteenth Century: Standard Narratives and New Perspectives on Societal Responses and Medical Notions
Stephen’s project brings together trends in public health, environmental, and Asian history, while strengthening new methodological insights and approaches. Based on historical research, the project highlights how globalization trends brought new challenges in containing cholera.
Read More“A Short Cut to Better Services”: A History of Day Surgery and Post-Operative Patient Care in the British National Health Service, c. 1950-2000
This project will reconstruct the history of day/outpatient surgery in Britain and consider its adoption in the context of the 1990s National Health Service reforms. As Canadian healthcare increasingly transitions to the use of outpatient approaches as a strategy for decreasing long surgical wait times, a better understanding of their adoption and outcomes in other healthcare systems will be instructive.
Read MoreDebilitated Veterans of the First World War
Kyle Falcon researches how disabled veterans coped with war-related debilities and the impact these had on their domestic lives.
Read MoreHome Bodies: Wearable healthcare technologies from 1880s to 1940s
Maia Woolner works to trace the circulation and consumption of medico-electric devices and their affiliated healthcare products and advertisements.
Read MoreExploring ethics and Canadian clinical cancer trials, 1978-1998
My AMS postdoctoral research project examines an historical trajectory shaping clinical research and its regulation in Canada.
Read MoreWeapons of mass pollution: health and environmental hazards in Canada’s munitions industry during the Second World War
This project sits at the intersection of medical, environmental, and military history. It will teach us about the history of toxicity and risk prevention related to workplace safety, medical treatments, and decontamination methods in the 1940s. During the Second World War, Canadian industries produced about 4.4 billion rounds of ammunition, 72 million artillery shells, and…
Read MoreManuscripting English medical knowledge in the early age of print
My postdoctoral research focuses on how individuals, and especially medical practitioners, adapted and personalised printed medical treatises by copying these often long (and sometimes learned) texts into manuscript in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. To understand the production and use of medical knowledge in the early modern era, we must consider manuscripts and printed texts…
Read MoreThe histories of military funding and medical science in Cold War Canada
Matthew called his AMS project, “Cold Soldiers: Medical Scientist Alan C. Burton and Military Experimentation in Cold War Canada”. It examined Burton’s postwar research contributions to military science in Canada. His work for the Defence Research Board is important for medical historians because it shows the entangled histories of military funding and medical science in…
Read MoreExploring the history of natural childbirth in Canada and the world
As an AMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitney continued the research for her second book manuscript, tentatively titled “A New Way to Birth? Natural Childbirth in Canada and the World, 1930-2000”. She also began an oral history project to explores attitudes towards natural childbirth in twentieth century Canada.
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