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SARS Unmasked
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers, despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their contact with patients. Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and, if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other questions. Cathy Peterson, who worked as a nurse clinician during the Toronto SARS c...
口罩文化史：病毒、符號與身份構建
本書介紹了口罩的發明、改良，從醫用領域走向大?的過程，探討口罩的文化標籤，疫情下一些國家人們“拒戴口罩”的原因。本書縱觀數千年世界文明進程，通過小口罩，講述大歷史。以小見大，解答當下大眾最關心的問題。 目錄 導言 口罩的文化密碼 第一章 口罩的中國歷史 第二章 口罩的世界歷史 第三章 現代口罩的誕生演變 第四章 口罩與霧霾 第五章 口罩與“新冠”戰役 第六章 口罩與政治 第七章 口罩與文藝 第八章 口罩�堛漯F西方之爭 結語 口罩與人類命運共同體 參考文獻
Rockefeller Foundation Funding and Medical Education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax
This book looks at how a major philanthropic donation transformed medical education in Canada.
A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a fascinating and deeply personal account of the actions, duties, feelings, and perceptions of a noncombatant who experienced the thick of battle and its grave consequences.
The War Diary of Clare Gass
The diary of a nurse who served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War.
Young Man's Benefit
In the past a family's chief cost of sickness was loss of the family head's earning, not expenses for health care. Since there were no government programs, sickness insurance provided by friendly societies, commercial insurers, and other institutions was important in partially replacing the wage earner's lost income. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) was the largest social society in Canada and the United States and also the largest provider of sickness insurance.
Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret
An ancient disease which predates man, tuberculosis was one of the earliest chronic life-threatening diseases faced by Canadians. By 1900 "The White Plague" was the number one cause of death for Canadians between fifteen and forty-five years of age. Racked by incessant coughing, barely able to catch their breath, tuberculosis sufferers seemed to literally waste away.
Fluorspar Mines of Newfoundland
A social and occupational health history of the St Lawrence fluorspar mines.
