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The Place of Region in the Social History of Medicine in Atlantic Canada
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mullally, Sasha |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH IS VAST in both scale and scope. Recent contributions from Atlantic Canada represent, in microcosm, a sampling of this expansive literature: Ronald Rompkey's The Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003) is the edited memoir of a Labrador medical missionary; David A.E. Shephard's Island Doctor: John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003) is a biography of a prominent physician from Prince Edward Island; W.G. Godfrey's The Struggle to Serve: A History of the Moncton Hospital, 1895-1953 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004) is an institutional history of a New Brunswick hospital; and Peter Twohig's Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950 (Montreal and Kingston: McGillQueen's University Press, 2005) is a history of laboratory workers in the Maritimes. This diversity of subjects in terms of individuals, institutions, and infrastructure is matched by the diversity of methodologies – from traditional medical biography to social history revisionism to class and gender analysis. Three are set in the 20th century, with Island Doctor examining a 19th-century story. The slate of authors likewise reflects the multi-disciplinarity of health history. W.G. Godfrey and Peter Twohig are professional historians while Ronald Rompkey is a writer and professor of literature and David Shephard is a physician for whom history is an avocation. Making comparisons among these authors' markedly different styles and approaches presents significant challenges. Nevertheless, this review will link them together by focusing on how each contributes to our growing understanding of the interplay of region and health and, in particular, the political, social, and cultural importance of region. Ronald Rompkey's work editing The Labrador Memoir of Dr. Harry Paddon, 19121938 adds another title to the several already produced by this author about individuals involved in missionary work in Labrador.1 This most recent contribution is a significant addition to the history of health in the region because Paddon was principal physician to the world-famous Grenfell Mission for over 20 years and his memoir offers a “behind the scenes” look at those mission activities. Over the course of his career, which spanned the first three decades of the 20th century, Paddon covered over 25,000 miles to build and maintain an infrastructure of health care services in an area that had hitherto |
| Starting Page | 138 |
| Ending Page | 138 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/download/5755/6760 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
