Books – Medical History

• 

  Manitoba Medicine

  A Brief History

  Ian Carr (Author), Robert E. Beamish (Author)

  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.

  Published November 1999 | History, Medical History

• 

  The Iron Rose

  The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross, MD

  (Author)

  Charlotte Ross (1843-1916) belonged to the first generation of women to practice medicine in Canada and was Manitoba’s first qualified woman doctor.

  Published January 1992 | Gender Studies, History, Medical History, Women’s Studies

• 

  Tell the Driver

  A Biography of Elinor F.E. Black, MD

  Julie Vandervoort (Author)

  A biography of Dr. Elinor Black (1905-1982), the first Canadian woman to gain membership in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London.

  Published January 1992 | Biography, Gender Studies, History, Medical History, Women’s Studies