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Number 18: Hannah Institute For The History of Medicine Newsletter
Number 18: Hannah Institute For The History of Medicine Newsletter
NEWS
letter Summer, 1993
Murphy moves on
If you've called the Can we talk? Hannah promotes
Hannah Institute over the
years, you'll be familiar with communication between medical schools
the friendly voice of Betty THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF CANADA'S MEDICAL SCHOOLS CAN BE BOTH A STRENGTH AND A
Murphy. Betty retired DRAWBACK. AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM SPONSORED BY THE HANNAH INSTITUTE HOPES TO BRING THE
recently after five years' SCHOOLS A LITTLE CLOSER BY OPENING UP THE COMMUNICATION LINES FROM COAST TO COAST.
service. We wish Betty all The first exchange took place this April Calgary's Dr. Peter Cruse.
the best in her future
between the University of Western Ontario
endeavors and welcome on Topics ranged from diseases among the
and the University of Calgary. Medical
board Lee Shane. Cree of Alberta to the old medical art of
students met at Western for three days of
Lee brings her talents in uroscopy.
office management to the
talks and socializing.
Professor Potter says he hopes the
Hannah Institute from "One of the objectives is to have each
exchange will became a regular annual
Toronto's Ryerson student work up a talk of ten minutes to
affair, possibly with next year's exchange
Polytechnical Institute. stimulate further research," says UWO
matching Calgary with Halifax's
Hannah Professor Paul Potter, who
m helped coordinate the exchange along with
Dalhousie University.
Royal College
meeting mulls
medicare mayhem Up close with a Neilson Award winner
The current national
health care crisis can Dr. C. Stuart Houston makes a good Dr. Houston says mentors hi his youth
seem downright case for the nurture-over-nature argument. helped turn him on to his current inter-
depressing to anyone who The latest winner of the Hannah Institute's ests.
follows the daily doom prestigious Neilson Award says the "We had an outstanding high school
and gloom presented in culture of self-reliance in Saskatchewan
the media.
history teacher who was also niy scout
fermented his rich career in medicine and master," says Dr. Houston. "Without that
But the Royal College medical history.
ofPhysidans and I don't believe I would have become
Surgeons' annual meeting
An impressive array of accomplish- what I am. These people got me writing
might be just what the ments has embellished the career of the and researching. All of this stimulated
doctor ordered—a week 65-year-old doctor. me—very heady and exciting."
of reflection, analysis and He's a radiologist at Saskatoon's Royal Dr. Houston plans to keep teaching
some much-needed University Hospital, and accomplished in until the university's official retirement
perspective to turn all two fields he calls "hobbies": he's spent age of 67, and has several books at
that negative energy into 20 years teaching and produced five various stages. One, tentatively titled
some good. books in the field of medical history, and When Saskatchewan Led the World, is
From September 9 to is also a recognized ornithologist. still being researched, while another book
13 in Vancouver, the
He's frank about the satisfaction of he worked on with his wife, Eighteenth-
conference probes the
being recognized. "People like to be Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay, is in
need for change and the
ways and means to do it stroked." the final draft stages.
Symposia include
"Can Our Health Care
System be Saved?," and Ottawa exhibits hysteria
the Hannah Institute's
symposium, "Crisis!
An exhibit highlighting the puzzling collection for this public exhibit which
What Crisis? Historical concept of hysteria has won praise from closed June 10.
Perspectives on the die patrons of the University of Ottawa's
According to the University of Otta-
Canadian Health Care Morisset Library.
wa's Debra Ann Begg, this dark page
System." It is hoped a Hannah Chair Toby Gelfand and from the history of psychiatric diagnosis
sober second look will doctoral candidate Wei Yuan combined raised awareness "of the library's unique
elevate participants above research with colour illustrations and holdings hi this subject area." 03
the daily maelstrom. selected books from the library's Hannah
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H A N N A H N S T I T U T E F O R T H E H I S T O R Y O F M E D
SCHOLARSHIP NEWS
Telephone 416-924-3368
To mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the City of York— Fax 416-323-3338
now Toronto—a half day free medical history symposium will take place
October 16.
Medicine in Toronto: 200 years will include Hannah Professors Editor-in-Chief
Charles G. Roland and Jackie Duffin as well as well-known historians J.T.H. Connor
Michael Bliss and Heather MacDougall.
Interested participants can write or call Dr. Arthur Gryfe, Queensway Editor and Writer
General Hospital, Toronto Medical History Club, 150 Sherway Drive, David South
Etobicoke, M9C 1A5,
416-259-6671
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David South
Symposium location
Start time: 9:15 a.m.
Toronto Hospital Residence, Main Auditorium, 90 Gerrard St. West The Newsletter welcomes
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