History of medicine

The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune.

In 1864 a woman was admitted to the Toronto asylum and diagnosed as suffering from ‘mania,’ a not uncommon diagnosis for women, a step beyond ‘hysteria.

Of the many interwar connections between Germany and Russia, one of the most unusual – and least explored – is medicine and public health.

Sometimes, history can solve a medical mystery; at other times, it can point to the right treatment or console a despairing doctor by demonstrating a timeless connection to unchanging aspects of human existence.

The historical development of dentistry as a profession in Ontario from the late nineteenth century to the end of the First World War is used as a case study to explore the significance of gender, particularly masculinity, in the formation of professions.

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada.