Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
© 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians from Vincent Lam to Sheela Basrur began their careers. But despite all its major accomplishments, the faculty’s impressive history has never before been comprehensively documented.
In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details the Faculty of Medicine’s history from its inception as a small provincial school to its present day status as an international powerhouse. Deeply researched through front-line interviews and primary sources, it ties the story of the faculty and its teaching hospitals to the general history of medicine over this period. Shorter emphasizes the enormous concentration of intellectual energy in the faculty that has allowed it to become the dominant force in Canadian medicine, home to a legion of medical pioneers and achievements.
Product Details
- World Rights
- Page Count: 992 pages
- Illustrations: 50
- Dimensions: 7.1in x 2.0in x 10.0in
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Reviews
‘This book’s great usefulness is as a reference tool. But there can be no doubt that it is an extremely useful and comprehensive reference book.’
Elsbeth Heaman
Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014 -
Author Information
Edward Shorter is the Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, shortlisted for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He is also a two-time winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s Hannah Medal for writing in the history of medicine.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 To the Corner of College and University
Chapter 3 An Afternoon in October 1903
Chapter 4 Getting Going
Chapter 5 Big Deeds
Chapter 6 Surgery
Chapter 7 The Surgical Subspecialties
Chapter 8 Medicine
Chapter 9 The Medical Subspecialties
Chapter 10 The Children’s Hospital
Chapter 11 Research
Chapter 12 An Academic Health Sciences Complex
Chapter 13 Cancer Care
Chapter 14 Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Chapter 15 Anatomy
Chapter 16 Physiology/Banting and Best/Biochemistry/Pharmacology/Nutrition
Chapter 17 Medical Biophysics/Biomedical Engineering/Immunology
Chapter 18 Laboratory Medicine (Pathology/Microbiology/Pathological Chemistry)
Chapter 19 Ophthalmology/Otolaryngology
Chapter 20 Anesthesia/Radiology
Chapter 21 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Chapter 22 New Talent/Mount Sinai Hospital/Women’s College Hospital
Chapter 23 Rehabilitation
Chapter 24 Family and Community
Chapter 25 Hospitals: Toronto General Hospital/St Michael’s Hospital/Toronto/Western Hospital/Sunnybrook Hospital
Chapter 26 New Ideas
Chapter 27 Student Life and Learning
Chapter 28 Molecular Medicine
Chapter 29 The Deans
Chapter 30 Epilogue
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