"For several weeks a year, over three decades, Dr John Burgess worked as a consulting cardiologist in Canada's North, a primary witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. His services to the Inuit, as well as his te…
"Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in …
This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhon…
This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhon…
Tibetan medicine: illustrated in original texts
The first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.