Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine

Charles G. Roland

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This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.

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• Medicine
• History

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554587759
• Langue: English

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SECONDARY SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN MEDICINE A Bibliography
SECONDARY SOURCES IN THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN MEDICINE A Bibliography
Compiled by Charles G. Roland, M.D.
THE HANNAH INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Roland, Charles G., 1933- Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine : a bibliography
ISBN 0-88920-182-X
1. Medicine - Canada - History - Bibliography. 2. Medicine - Canada - Bibliography. I. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine. II. Title.
Z6661.C2R64 1984 016.61 0971 C85-098066-6
1984 The Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine
Published 1984 for the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
ISBN 0-88920-182-X
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.
This book was phototypeset from an electronic file provided by the compiler.
Printed in Canada
Dedicated to my parents Leona (Roland) Steel and John Sanford Roland (1910-1960)
Among their unwitting gifts to me was an appreciation of intellectual order and organization, attributes that are, I hope, reflected in this volume
Contents
Introduction
Using the Bibliography
Searching the McMaster University Data Base
List of Journals Examined
Table 1. Subject Classification Codes
Table 2. Diseases Injuries Subclassification
Table 3. Era and Place Divisions
Biographical Listing
Subject Listing
Author Listing
Introduction
Medical-historical bibliography has made great progress since the 1960s, thanks substantially, although by no means entirely, to the availability of the digital computer. Excellent reference works such as Garrison and Morton 1 and Genevieve Miller s bibliography 2 remain standards, but for the latter, at least, the task of supplementing or revising manually would become increasingly arduous. (The work has, to a significant degree, been continued by the National Library of Medicine s efforts.) The Wellcome Library has issued a splendid quarterly bibliography since 1965, a work that unfortunately is more and more weakened by the lack of a cumulative index. We entered the Computer Age in that year, when the National Library of Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland, began to produce its annual bibliographies, cumulated quinquennially.
Readers will be well aware of the merits and weaknesses of these various tools. Canadian readers will also know that our medical-historical literature has had little bibliographic attention, with two general exceptions. First, the major reference tools mentioned above do carry citations of Canadian material. However, such citations are far from comprehensive, even within the differing scopes of these bibliographies; local publications rarely are cited and none of the tools except Garrison and Morton is retrospective. Secondly, there have been some bibliographic efforts carried out in specialized fields. In the 1930s, MacDermot compiled a useful bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals 3 that recently was brought up-to-date and expanded. 4 A little-known but very useful bibliography has been prepared on the history of Indian and Inuit health. 5 And a few individuals have received bibliographic attention, most particularly William Osler. 6 Beyond these kinds of works, there has been little of specific assistance to historians of Canadian medicine. It is that gap that this volume is intended to fill.
Thirty years ago I began to collect material for my personal bibliography of Canadian medical history, little suspecting the scope this personal project would attain. This book represents the attainment of the first goal of three that were defined formally some years ago in seeking support for a project to enlarge Canadian medical-historical bibliographic resources. The three goals were:
to publish a bibliography categorized by biographical and subject entries;
to maintain an expanded data file that could be searched by any scholar seeking greater depth of information;
to keep that file up-to-date for the indefinite future.
The data files do exist at McMaster University and are available to scholars. That option will be described later. The intention is to pursue the third goal, although to some degree success here is in the laps of the gods.
Scope and Definitions
This work is presented as a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history . Each of these words deserves some explanation and definition.
Bibliography: This is an enumerative bibliography without annotations. Since the material is in general not rare or difficult to find, no effort has been made to describe locations. Nor is it an elitist document in any way; the compiler has made no attempt to exclude bad history (whatever that may be), nor badly written history. The spectrum will be found to be extremely broad, accurately reflecting the historical and contemporary state of the discipline. The work is avowedly retrospective, every reasonable effort having been made to find older material, especially that pre-dating the existing bibliographic tools-i.e. pre-1939.
Secondary Sources: These are published sources that are written about an event or person. To be published, a work must be available to the public; included are books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, pamphlets, brochures, and theses. Primary sources, both published and unpublished, are excluded. For example, the original papers by Banting et al on their researches into insulin do not appear within these pages, although later retrospective considerations of these times and events, both by Banting and by Best, are included.
Canadian: Here the intent has been to encompass everything that fits all the other criteria and that took place in what is now Canada, or what was once Canada, including New France, British North America, and the territories of the Hudson s Bay Company (but expressly excluding the now U.S.A., a huge subject in its own right). In addition, activities of Canadians outside the country have been included where these activities are identifiably Canadian : for example, military medical work in Europe in World War I, and the medical-missionary efforts of numerous individuals in Asia and Africa.
Medical: The broadest scope has been used in defining this word, as should be evident in scanning the list of subject categories. However, some specific exclusions should be noted: a few general works on the history of dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing are cited, but these fields have not been tilled systematically. The same is true of related fields such as physiotherapy. On the other hand, the history of medical topics that are not medical-scientific, but rather social, is included, as shown by the entries on subjects such as poor relief and famine.
History: This criterion also has been defined as having a wide spectrum. The result is perhaps most evident in the large number of obituaries that are included, some of them quite short and most of them uncritical; the rationale has been, first, that the obituary is a deliberate attempt to create an historical record, no matter how biased the eulogist may be, and second, that obituaries often are the sole published record of a life or the only accessible entree to a life. Thus obituaries have been entered in generous numbers.
If any simple statement can synopsize the editorial intention in compiling this bibliography, it might be this: where decisions to include/exclude have had to be made, I have tried to be inclusive rather than exclusive. Data presented in this bibliography need not be used, but data not presented might be lost or ignored.
There will be numerous omissions in this bibliography (without, I hope, many errors). I accept full responsibility for both, but I hope readers will see their occurrence as providing an opportunity to contribute to the increased usefullness of the work, and will notify me promptly. I also accept total responsibility for some discrepancies of style that continue to exist in the present work despite much effort to eliminate these; in a project pursued over many years, such inconsistencies seem as inevitable as they are frustrating. Ultimately, in the interests of getting the volume into the hands of historians, the time came when a halt had to be called to further resetting of type. One final apology is in order: although every effort was made to design the computer programmes to include them, and though they were all entered into the computer, nevertheless, it has proved impossible to print the proper accents for any of the items published in French. This inconsistency will be corrected in future editions.
Acknowledgements
Scholars throughout the field and in many parts of the world have suggested entries and assisted in many other ways. Although they are too numerous to mention by name, I hope they will accept this blanket note of appreciation as well as my warm invitation to continue to make recommendations. This book is only one stage in a continuing project.
Two secretaries, Sue Glover and, for a few months, Cora Miszuk, have had the unenviable task of typing thousands of entry-cards. They have done so with good humour as well as skill. Khursh Ahmed and Kim Clark, of the Computation Services Unit, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, provided valuable guidance in setting up the program, and Clar