Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss : : Figuring the Social / / Elsbeth A. Heaman, Shelley McKellar, Alison Li.
A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osle...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword / Fraser, John / Maccallum, Elizabeth
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Michael Bliss and the Delicate Balance of Individual and Society / Heaman, E. A.
- Appendix: Doctoral Dissertations Supervised by Michael Bliss
- The Career and Influence of Michael Bliss
- 1. Growth, Progress, and the Quest for Salvation: Confessions of a Medical Historian / Bliss, Michael
- 2. Inspiration as Instruction: Michael Bliss as a Graduate Adviser, 1989-1994 / White, Richard
- 3. Michael Bliss in the Media / Turley-Ewart, John
- Politics and Business
- 4. Constructing Ignorance: Epistemic and Military Failures in Britain and Canada during the Seven Years War / Heaman, E. A.
- 5. Common Knowledge: Theory, Concept, and the Prosaic in Making the Tariff of 1859 / Forster, Ben
- 6. Business, Culture, and the History of News, 1870-1930: A Case Study of the 'Political/Commercial' Dichotomy / Allen, Gene
- Family and Religion
- 7. 'I thank God ... that I am proud of my boy': Fatherhood and Religion in the Gordon Family / Marshall, David B.
- 8. Casual Fornicators, Delinquent Dads, Young Lovers, and Family Champions: Men in Canadian Adoption Circles / Strong-Boag, Veronica
- 9. Writing Religion: Some Influences on Twentieth-Century Developments in Canadian Religious History / Hogan, Brian F.
- Health and Public Policy
- 10. Personality, Politics, and Canadian Public Health: The Origins of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, 1888-1917 / Rutty, Christopher J.
- 11. Defining Disability, Limiting Liability: The Care of Thalidomide Victims in Canada / Clow, Barbara
- 12. 'Comfort, Security, Dignity': Home Care for Canada's Aging Veterans, 1977-2004 / Struthers, James
- Medical Science and Practice
- 13. Wondrous Transformations: Endocrinology after Insulin / Li, Alison
- 14. A History of Lobotomy in Ontario / Reaume, Geoffrey
- 15. Limitations Exposed: Willem J. Kolff and His Contentious Pursuit of a Mechanical Heart / McKellar, Shelley
- 16. History, Memory, and Twentieth- Century Medical Life Writing: Unpacking a Cape Breton Country Doctor's Black Bag / Mullally, Sasha
- Bibliography of Michael Bliss
- Contributors