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Medical History

Labour in the Laboratory

Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-50

by (author) Peter Twohig

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2005
Category
History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773528611
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • 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.

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