History of Health Resources

Online artices by Manitoba Authors

The Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library is a primary resource for studing the History of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Resources include; the Ross Mitchell Rare Book Room; the Erica and Arnold Rogers History of Medicine Room, which houses the Hollenberg History of Medicine Collection; the library's collection of journals; and the Faculty of Medicine Archives which includes an extensive biographical collection. Displays of antique medical instruments and displays from the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine may be found in the Library.

Education

The History of Medicine is taught and studied in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manitoba.  The History of Medicine Programme is supported, in part, with funding obtained from the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine.

Faculty from several departments in the Faculty of Medicine form an interdisciplinary group with an interest in teaching and scholarly work in the History of Medicine.  Interest in the History of Medicine is active outside of the University of Manitoba in the form of the Manitoba History of Medicine Society which meets four times per year.

These include:

Dr. Marion McKay Faculty of Nursing Phone: 204-474-6687

Dr. T.V.N. Persaud Department of Anatomy Phone: 204-789-3333

Dr. C.P.W. Warren Department of Medicine Phone: 204-787-2338

A course is organised for first year medical students.  For more information on the course view the Syllabus.

Each fall the library offers a History of Medicine Seminar in support of the History of Medicine Program. 

Resources

Databases.

Web sites

Online articles by Manitoba Authors:

Dr. Ian Carr

Local and National History

• Hippocrates on the Red: the History of the Manitoba Medical School  - A brief history of the Manitoba Medical College [images].
• Medical History in Canada and Manitoba
• Lord Lister's Lecture to Winnipeg Medical Students - 1898

General History

• The Far Beginnings - A Brief History of Medicine
• Folk Healing, Alternative, and Parallel Medicines
• Sense, Twitch and Soul: An Essay on the History of Neurology - as seen in the Health Sciences Library of the University of Manitoba.
• Nature of Disease: the Nineteenth Century Medical Revolution
• Plagues and Peoples: the Columbian Exchange
• History of Medicine Bibliography
• The Lesion - A short presentation on the history of Pathology [images].
• "The Salerno Book of Health". Images from History of the School of Salernum, Harington, Sir John. 1920. With Introduction by Dr. Ian Carr.

Women and history of Medicine

•  Dying to have a Baby: the History of Child Birth
• Women as Healers

Ada Ducas & Janice Linton

• History of Manitoba Women in Health - includes brief biographies of the following: Dr. Charlotte Whitehead Ross, Dr. Amelia Yeomans, Dr. Elizabeth Beckett Matheson, Dr. Margaret Ellen Douglass, Dr. Frances Gertrude McGill, Dr. Elinor Frances Elizabeth Black, Dr. Gerda Allison, Phyllis Jean McAlpine, PhD, F.C.C.C.G, The Grey Nuns, Margaret Scott, Anne G. Ross, Mary Speechly, Dr. Helen Glass, Grace Easter

Dr. J. Kaufert

• Social Change and Public Health: Population Health and Victorian Epidemics

Dr. T.V.N. Persaud

• Human Anatomy: Early History

Dr. Peter Warren

• The Roots of Scientific Medicine
• The Development of a Profession -Attitudes and Behaviour
• Clinical Skills - The Detection of Diseased Organs
• The Causes and Prevention of Disease- Bacteriology/Immunology
• The Medical Treatment of Disease
• The Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary and Cardiac Disease