Labour in the Laboratory
Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-50
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2005
- Category
- History
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773528611
- Publish Date
- May 2005
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572652
- Publish Date
- May 2005
- List Price
- $95.00
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Labour in the Laboratory is also about the ways in which health care work has been organized. Twohig reveals that many health care workers fulfilled multiple roles, challenging traditional ideas of professional boundaries and exclusive control over particular tasks. Using evidence from the Maritime provinces, he challenges assumptions about health care work and hospital development throughout Canada and beyond.
About the author
PETER TWOHIG is an historian of the Atlantic region. He is the author of two previous books on health care work, and five interdisciplinary essay collections on health, illness and disease. He began his career in Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine, before taking up a Canada Research Chair in history at Saint Mary's University, which he held from 2003 to 2013. He teaches in the Department of History at Saint Mary's and several interdisciplinary programs.
