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  • Doing Good

    The Life of Toronto's General Hospital

    by J.T.H. Connor ...
    Series series Heritage
    A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries. In this lively and authoritative account, J.T.H. Connor traces the hospital’s two-hundred-year evolution, as its mandate to ‘do good’ forced constant adjustment to changing social, medical, and government attitudes.Doing Good presents the hospital’s history in three ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000

    Edited by J T H Connor, Stephen Curtis ...
    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Canada

    Sixth Edition

    by Desmond Morton ...
    Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history.Morton ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bath Time (storey 27 of 40)

    Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series Book 27 - The White Girl
    Black round rock faces escape from months of imprisonment below the ice and snow. Heat radiates back from the smooth rock “mountain” that provides the backdrop for the tiny village of Coppermine which is located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Small hands escape from mittens and crowd together on the warm dry surface of the rock, giggles escape from childish lips. Into winter weary palms the ... Read more

    $1.00 CAD

  • Doctors

    The Biography of Medicine

    by Sherwin B. Nuland ...
    From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way.How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

    Under the Spell of the Great Chinook

    by Sid Marty ...
    A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fictionWinner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book FestivalLeaning on the Wind is a love song of the west, sung to the tune of the wild chinook wind. Sid Marty skilfully weaves together the prehistory of Alberta with the experiences of First Nations, miners, early ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine

    by Thomas H. Lee ...
    Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent—and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others have faded into history. Much of the improved survival and change in attitudes can be traced to the work of Eugene Braunwald, MD. In the 1960s, he proved that myocardial infarction was not a “bolt from the blue” but a dynamic process that ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Frederick Banting

    by Stephen Eaton Hume ...
    Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anesthesia

    The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness

    by Kate Cole-Adams ...
    An “obsessive, mystical, terrifying” exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (New Yorker).Features fascinating insights from real-life doctors and patients—“a must-read for anyone who woke from surgery and couldn’t remember anything about the experience” (Signature Reads).First there’s the injection, then the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD