This volume brings together such topics as the history of psychiatry, biomedical ethics in history, military medicine, children, women and changing gender roles in modern medicine, public health history, and a special communication on the history of Canadian hospital workers. Of special note is a paper by internationally renowned historian, Dr Peter L. Twohig, Canadian Research Chair in the History of the Atlantic World at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is well-illustrated with images and diagrams pertaining to the history of medicine.

• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of all Presenters and their Academic Affiliations
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• History of Psychiatry
• The Metamorphosis of Psychiatric Language and the Emergence of the Schizophrenia Concept (1902–1911)
• Keynote Lecture
• A “Most Distressing Shortage”
• Biomedical Ethics in History
• A History of Military Human Experimentation and Chemical Weapons Research in Canada Shaped by the Biomedical Research Relationship of Canadian and American Militaries
• A Review of the Increasing Use of the Hippocratic Oath at North American Medical Schools in the 20th Century
• Military Medicine
• Pioneers in Canadian Plastic Surgery Education
• Children, Women, and Changing Gender Roles in Modern Medicine
• The Forgotten World of Children’s Teeth
• A Historical Exploration of the Professional Development and Midwife/ Doula Divide in the Modern Canadian Health Care System
• Public Health History
• Radium Dial Workers
• Special Communications in the History of Medicine and Health Care
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Education, Expertise, Experience and the Making of Hospital Workers in Canada, 1920–1960
• Appendix
• Index of Persons
• Index of Places