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How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine,
disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping
cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience? This history
explores the exceptionally complex scientific and medical
techniques and practices that have allowed practitioners to claim
expertise in the brain and mind sciences over the past two
centuries. Based on meticulous historical studies, essays in the
volume move from the postrevolutionary Parisian Menagerie of the
Jardin des Plantes to the political contexts of neuroscience within
the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States in the
late twentieth century. Touching on such disparate topics as the
luggage of German exiles, the role of whipping cream in industrial
food production, the emergence of neurosurgery, and the private
musings of a disgruntled medicaltechnician, the contributors to
this volume make a powerful case for concentrating scholarly
attention on seemingly marginal chapters of the history of the mind
and brain sciences. By so doing, the authors contend that it is in
the obscure, peripheral, and marginal stories of the past that we
can best see the emerging futures of the medicine and science of
the brain and the mind. Collectively these essays thus reveal that
the richness of the history of the brain and mind sciences cannot
and should not be reduced to a unitary, uncomplicated narrative of
progressive discovery. CONTRIBUTORS: Brian P. Casey, Stephen T.
Casper, Justin Garson, Delia Gavrus, Katja Guenther, L.Stephen
Jacyna, Kenton Kroker, Thomas Schlich, Max Stadler, Frank W.
Stahnisch Stephen Casper is Associate Professor of History at
Clarkson University. Delia Gavrus is Assistant Professor of the
History of Science at the University of Winnipeg.
Medicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As
federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century,
Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health
historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and
the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present.
Embedding medicare in the diverse constituencies that have given it
existence and meaning, contributors inquire into the strengths and
weaknesses of publicly insured health care and critically examine
medicare's unfinished role in achieving greater health equity for
all people in Canada regardless of race, status, gender, class,
age, and ability.Fundamental to the stories told in Medicare's
Histories is the essential role played by communities - of
activists, critics, health professionals, First Nations, patients,
families, and survivors - in driving demands for health reform, in
identifying particular omissions and inequities exacerbated or even
created by medicare, and in responding to the realities of medicare
for those who work in and rely on it. Contributors to this volume
show how medicare has been shaped by politics (in the broadest
sense of that word), identities, professional organizations, and
social movements in Canada and abroad. As COVID lays bare social
inequities and the inadequacies of health care delivery and public
health, this book shows what was excluded and what was - and is -
possible in health care.
In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of
medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both
individual experiences and structural barriers in medical
education. The essays in this collection offer new insights into
the deep histories of these processes, across time and around the
globe. Transforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one
historical case studies that foreground processes of learning,
teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts.
The chapters are organized around the themes of knowledge
transmission, social justice, identity, pedagogy, and the
surprising affinities between medical and historical practice. By
juxtaposing original research on diverse geographies and eras –
from medieval Japan to twentieth-century Canada, and from colonial
Cameroon to early Republican China – the volume disrupts
traditional historiographies of medical education by making room
for schools of medicine for revolutionaries, digital cadavers,
emotional medical students, and the world’s first mandatory
Indigenous community placement in an accredited medical curriculum.
This unique collection of international scholarship honours
historian, physician, and professor Jacalyn Duffin for her
outstanding contributions to the history of medicine and medical
education. An invaluable scholarly resource and teaching tool,
Transforming Medical Education offers a provocative study of what
it means to teach, learn, and belong in medicine.
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