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Medical History

Manitoba Medicine

A Brief History

by (author) Ian Carr & Robert E. Beamish

Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Initial publish date
Nov 1999
Category
History, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887550683
    Publish Date
    Nov 1999
    List Price
    $24.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887556609
    Publish Date
    Nov 1999
    List Price
    $22.95

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For many Canadians, the state of our health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into where our present medical system came from and how it developed.

Beginning with a description of some early Aboriginal healing practices and of the physicians of the Red River Settlement, Manitoba Medicine follows the struggles in the 1870s to establish what would become the first medical college and the first major hospitals in Western Canada. It chronicles the fight for public health in the 1920s, the development of health insurance and medicare after WWII, and medicine’s role in fighting the 1950 Winnipeg Flood and the polio epidemic of the late 1950s. Manitoba Medicine also provides vivid accounts of many of the individuals who built Manitoba’s medical system, including early educators like Swale Vincent, pioneering women physicians such as Charlotte Ross, important researchers like Bruce Chown, and colourful private practitioners such as Murrough O’Brien.

About the authors

Dr. Ian Carr is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. He is a former editor of the Prairie Medical Journal.

Ian Carr's profile page

Dr. Robert Beamish was an internationally distinguished cardiologist. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1990.

Robert E. Beamish's profile page