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  • History of Medicine

    A Scandalously Short Introduction, Third Edition

    Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely appreciated by general readers for more than twenty years. Based on sound scholarship and meticulous research, History of Medicine incorporates pithy examples from a range of periods and places and is ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • COVID-19

    A History

    Series Book 1 - Canadian Essentials
    For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada.Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • COVID-19

    A History

    Series Book 1 - Canadian Essentials
    For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada.Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Disease

    This revised fourth edition of The Archaeology of Disease focuses on reconstructing the origin, evolution, and history of disease as seen mainly through human skeletons from archaeological sites. In addition, this edition addresses new concepts in medicine and explores the challenges faced by individuals and populations, including their children.Integrating conceptual frameworks from ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Stanley's Dream

    The Medical Expedition to Easter Island

    Series Book 247 - Carleton Library Series
    In 1964-65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World

    Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World

    Cosmas and Damian were martyred around the year 300 A.D. in what is now Syria. Called the Anargyroi ("without silver") because they charged no fees, they became patrons of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy and the focus of cults ranging across Europe. They were popular in Byzantine and Orthodox traditions and their shrines are numerous in Eastern Europe, southern Italy, and Sicily. The Medici family ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • SARS in Context

    Forgiveness explores what it is we are doing when we forgive and why that might be a good thing in itself. It shows that learning to forgive should not be seen as simply a goal of self-development like overcoming shyness dealing with loss or getting past rejection but is more difficult more complex and more troubling than it is often portrayed. Proper forgiveness is a moral achievement it is a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Lovers and Livers

    Disease Concepts in History

    Series series Joanne Goodman Lectures
    Can a disease be an idea? A theory? Does disease exist without a patient to suffer from it?In Lovers and Livers, Jacalyn Duffin provides a lively overview of the ideas around disease. She introduces philosophical theories of disease and delves into the history of two distinct afflictions – one old, one new – which serve as examples to show how applying theory can uncover surprising aspects of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Langstaff

    A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life

    Series series Heritage
    A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889). ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    COVID-19

    A History

    Narrated by Jacalyn Duffin ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Canadian Essentials

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada.Duffin describes the frightening appearance of the virus and its identification by scientists in China; subsequent outbreaks on cruise ships; the relentless spread to Europe, the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere; and the ... Read more

    $23.95 CAD

  • Stanley's Dream

    The Medical Expedition to Easter Island

    Series Book 247 - Carleton Library Series
    In 1964-65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • SARS in Context

    Memory, History, and Policy

    Series Book 27 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD