Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine The CBHM/BCHM is looking for submissions for its fall 2012 and fall 2013 issues. The journal is interested in any submission that deals broadly with history of health and medicine. We accept manuscripts in English and French. For further information please contact Dr. Kristin Burnett at kburnett@lakeheadu.ca Author
Presentation and book signing St. Ann’s Academy, 835 Humboldt Street, Victoria Sunday, November 20, 2011- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Flyer
Glennis Zilm, has received the Blythe Eagles Volunteer Leadership Award from the University of British Columbia (UBC). “Ms Glennis Zilm is a historian, writer and teacher who has performed a great service to the nursing profession in Canada by researching and preserving its past, in particular the central role played by her alma mater and
by Sioban Nelson, Anne Marie Rafferty Cornell Univ Pr, 2010 – 184 pages $23.95 Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishing the world’s first nursing school; and advocacy
Follow the link below to see a copy of the conference program, including abstracts, from the 2010 conference in Winnipeg, MB. Stay tuned to this site for a conference report later this summer! CAHN2010_Program Book
A new e-book, This is Public Health: A Canadian History, by Christopher Rutty and Sue Sullivan is now available. Follow the link to access the book and take part in the richly illustrated and interactive history of public health from the time before Canada was a nation until 1986. Photos and illustrations bring the story