Alberta’s Medical History
Alberta’s Medical History:
“Young and Lusty, and Full of Life”
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Part 1: Profiles
- Introductory materials: Table of Contents, Preface, Forward [sic], A Voyage of Discovery, Glossary of Abbreviations, General References, Introduction To Medicine In Alberta
- John Rae……………………………… 1813-1893
- James Hector……………………….. 1834-1907
- William Morrison MacKay………. 1836-1917
- Neville James Lindsay…………… 1845-1925
- Leverett George deVeber………. 1849-1925
- James Delamere Lafferty………. 1849-1920
- Richard Barrington Nevitt……….. 1850-1928
- Robert George Brett………………. 1851-1929
- * Frank Hamilton Mewburn……. 1858-1929
- George Allan Kennedy…………… 1858-1913
- * Harry Goodsir Mackid………… 1858-1916
- Herbert Charles Wilson………….. 1859-1909
- * Ernest Ainslie Braithwaite…….. 1862-1949
- Henry George……………………….. 1864-1932
- George Henry Malcolmson…….. 1868-1944
- * John Sinclair McEachern…….. 1873-1947
- Edward George Mason………….. 1874-1947
- William Alfred Wilson……………. 1874-1951
- George Douglas Stanley………… 1876-1954
- Allan Coats Rankin.………………. 1877-1959
- * Albert Ernest Archer……………. 1878-1948
- Heber Carss Jamieson………….. 1879-1962
- * Albert Henry Baker……………… 1883-1953
- * Malcolm Ross Bow…………….. 1887-1982
- * James Bertram Collip………….. 1892-1967
- * Earle Parkhill Scarlett………….. 1896-1982
- Randall Roberts MacLean……… 1900-1977
- * Mary Percy Jackson……………. 1904-2000
- * Walter Campbell Mackenzie… 1909-1978
- Margaret MacSteven Hutton…… 1910-1983
- * Donald Robert Wilson…………. 1913-1991
- * Charles Alexander Allard…….. 1919-1991
- * William A. Cochrane…………… 1926-2017
- * Lionel Everett McLeod…………. 1927-1993
- * David Lorne Tyrrell…………….. 1943-
* Doctors of the Century, AMA, 2005
Part 2: Perspectives
- The Hector Memorials of 1906 (1857-1860)
- Military Medicine and Medical Care in the North West Rebellions of 1870/71 and 1885
- Osler Goes West (1886) (D.B. Hogan)
- The First CMA Convention in “Alberta” (1889, Banff)
- The Medical Profession in the North-West Territories (1889-1906) (H. Neatby)
- Climate, Calgary and Tuberculosis (c1900) (D.B. Hogan)
- The Early Pathology/Laboratory Medicine at the UofA, its Teaching Hospitals and the Provincial Laboratory (H. Letts)
- Radiology in Alberta (W.B. Parsons)
- The Second CMA Convention (1912, Edmonton)
- The University of Alberta and the Rockefeller Foundation (1920-1923) (M. Fedunkiw)
- Hons. George Hoadley, Irene Parlby, W.W. Cross and UFA Government Healthcare (1921-1935)
- The Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act (1928)
- The Mercy Flight and Dr. Harold Hamman (1929)
- Snow Problem, No Problem (1920s-1930s)
- The Roots of Medicare are in Alberta (1927-1946)
- The Cardston Medical Contracts (1932)
- Di Bozsha, May the Lord give you Health (1933) (M.A.R. Young)
- The Third CMA Convention (1934, Calgary)
- The 1937 AMA Gavel (1937)
- Medicine, the WWII Years (1934-1945)(W.B. Parsons)
- The Development of Alberta Hospitals since WWII (R.K. Thomson)
- The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Its Formative Years 1975-2005
- Tidbits and Teasers from Alberta’s medical history
- Milestones in NWT/Alberta Medicine (1668-2005)
- Alberta/Saskatchewan Milestones, Alberta’s Medical History Website
- Photo Credits
- Index, Volume I Profiles
- Index, Volume II Perspectives