Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2012 (The Proceedings of the Annual History of Medicine Days Conferences at the ... School of Medicine, Alberta, Canada)

The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days can be seen as a Series in the History of Medicine and Health Care that publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, hence providing a unique publishing format. The annual Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference, established in 1991, brings together undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and health care from an interdisciplinary perspective. The History of Medicine Days offers an annual platform for discussions and exchanges between participants over recent research findings, methodological perspectives, or work-in-progress descriptions of ongoing historiographical projects. This book brings together a number of reviewed and edited conference papers, comprising topics from the history of health care systems, medical sciences, psychiatry and neuroscience, public health, and historical issues of gender in medicine. Furthermore, it includes the paper given by the conference’s internationally-renowned keynote speaker, Dr. Theodore M. Brown, Professor of History and Medical Humanities and Charles E. & Dale L. Phelps Professor of Public Health and Policy, University of Rochester, New York. It also comprises all of the abstracts of the conference for documentation purposes and is well illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine. About the Author Kelsey Lucyk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine, Canada. She is a student in population and public health and an Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions graduate trainee. She is particularly interested in the history of the social determinants of health in Canada. Aleksandra Loewenau is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the History of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Canada. She holds a PhD in the History of Medicine from Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she previously worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant. Her research interests are Holocaust, migration, war, European, and gender studies. Frank W. Stahnisch is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he also holds the AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care in the Faculty of Medicine.