Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 18002000
S TUDIES FOR THE S OCIETY FOR THE S OCIAL H ISTORY OF M EDICINE
Series Editors: David Cantor
Keir Waddington
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Medicine in the remote and rural north, 18002000. (Studies for the Society
for the Social History of Medicine)
1. Medical care Europe, Northern History 19th century. 2. Medical
care Europe, Northern History 20th century. 3. Medical care North
America History 19th century. 4. Medical care North America History
20th century.
I. Series II. Connor, James Thomas Hamilton, 1952 III. Curtis, Stephan
Michael.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-157-2 (hbk)
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Contents
Stephan Curtis
- Steven Cherry and Francis King
- Teemu Ryymin
Astri Andresen
Marguerite Dupree
Sren Edvinsson
ivind Larsen
- J. T. H. Connor
- Sasha Mullally
Mette Rnsager
Linda Kealey
Megan J. Davies
- Marianne Junila
This collection of essays began as a series of conference papers delivered at Memorial University, St Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Those who were invited to participate in this event hailed from Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, as well as Atlantic, central and western Canada. Most of the papers presented at the conference appear in this volume.
Many who attended the conference commented that it was worthwhile . If so, then we have the Hannah Institute conference funding programme to thank. This programme, sponsored by Associated Medical Services, Inc. of Toronto, Canada, generously supported travel and accommodation costs for all visiting participants. We are grateful to Drs Bill Seidelman and Bill Shragge, presidents of this philanthropic agency during the time of the conference and subsequent publication of this collection of essays. Additional thanks are extended to Bill Shragge for approving the publication subvention.
Many attendees also commented that it was an enjoyable conference. If so, then additional funding allowed us all to savour the many sights, sounds and flavours of Newfoundland at the most north-eastern edge of the North American continent. Accordingly we wish to express our thanks to: Dr Axel Meissen (former president, Memorial University), Dr James Rourke (Dean of Medicine), Dr Reeta Tremblay (former Dean of Arts), Mr Andy Wells (former mayor, City of St Johns), colleagues in the Department of History Memorial University, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research.
Others also helped in many material ways in making this conference worthwhile and enjoyable, or assisted in the production of this book: Terry Bishop-Stirling, Dr Anders Brndstrm, Anne Budgell, Dr Jennifer Connor, Dr Catherine Donovan, Dr Nancy Earle, Dr lf Gararsdttir, Dr Paul Hackett, Stephanie Harlick, Carol Hedd, Dr Monica Kidd, Dennis OKeefe, Dr Marie Clark Nelson, Rosalind Nichols, Nigel Markham, June McGuire, Sinikka Okkola, Dr John Rogers, Dr Peter Skld, Christopher Smith, and Claire Wilcox. We also would like to acknowledge the advice and encouragement of Dr David Cantor (Deputy Director, Office of History, National Institutes of Health) in his capacity as the Society of the Social History of Medicine series editor along with the external reader of these essays; their comments greatly strengthened this book.
J. T. H. Connor and Stephan Curtis
Astri Andresen PhD is Professor in History in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. She is researching Sami History, the History of Children and Childhood and the History of Health and Medicine. She has published books and articles within the three fields, including works on rural health.
Steven Cherry PhD is Reader in the History of Medicine at the University of East Anglia, Norwich UK. He has published work on the organization of medical and hospital services from eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries; mental health care in Britain; and aspects of health care in rural Europe.
J. T. H. Connor PhD is John Clinch Professor of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, Canada; he also holds an appointment in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. He has published widely on science, technology and medicine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, as well as aspects of medical museums.
Stephan Curtis is Associate Professor, in the Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, NL, Canada. His interests include infant and maternal mortality, childhood diseases and the dissemination of medical knowledge in nineteenth-century Sweden.
Megan Davies is an Associate Professor in the Health & Society Programme, York University, Toronto. Current projects include: a history of home and community health in the British Columbia Peace River region; a study of health and poor law practices in the Shetland Islands; an oral history project on home birth and lay midwifery in British Columbia, 197090; and collaborative educational and research website projects on the history of mental health and deinstitutionalization in Canada (www.historyofmadness.ca).
Marguerite Dupree is Professor of Social and Medical History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She is co-author, with Anne Crowther, of Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and of articles on the history of the medical profession, on the history of hydropathic establishments, on medical practitioners and the business of life assurance and on issues of integration in the National Health Service 194874. She is also the author of books and articles on family history and on the history of governmentindustry relations in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
