Famous Canadian Physicians

Further Research

Published Works

History of Canadian Medicine

Crellin, J.K., R.R. Andersen and J.T.H. Connor, eds. Alternative Health Care in Canada: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1997.

Dodd, Dianne, and Deborah Gorham, eds. Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994.

Hacker, Carlotta. The Indomitable Lady Doctors. Halifax: Formac, 2001.

Jack, Donald. Rogues, Rebels and Geniuses: The Story of Canadian Medicine. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1981.

Mitchinson, Wendy, and Janice Dickin McGinnis, eds. Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988.

Public Archives of Canada. Canadian Medical Archives: A Selection of Archival Material Relating to the History of Medicine in Canada / Archives médicales du Canada : l'histoire de la médecine au Canada à travers les documents d'archives. (Prepared with the co-operation of the Public Archives of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Hannah Institute for the History of Medecine.) Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1980.

Solomon, Stan. Patients First: The Story of Family Medicine in Canada / Les patients d'abord : l'histoire de la médecine familiale au Canada. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004.

Waldram, James B., D. Ann Herring and T. Kue Young. Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Sir Frederick Banting

Bliss, Michael. Banting: A Biography. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984.

______. The Discovery of Insulin. Edinburgh: P. Harris, 1983.

Jackson, A.Y. The Far North: A Book of Drawings. Toronto: Rous & Mann, 1927.

Shaw, Margaret Mason. Frederick Banting. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1976.

______. He Conquered Death: The Story of Frederick Grant Banting. Toronto: Macmillan, 1946.

Dr. Norman Bethune

Allan, Ted, and Sydney Gordon. The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973.

Du Vernet, Sylvia. Norman Bethune Memorial Poems: Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of Norman Bethune's Birth. Gravenhurst, [Ontario]: S.  DuVernet, 1990.

Hern, Frances. Norman Bethune: The Incredible Life and Tragic Death of a Revered Canadian Doctor. Canmore, Alberta: Altitude Publishing Canada, 2004.

MacLeod, Wendell, Libbie Park and Stanley Ryerson. Bethune: The Montreal Years: An Informal Portrait. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1978.

Dr. Gustave Gingras

Guilder, Robert. Dr. Gustav Gingras. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Instructional Media Services, 1976.

Gingras, Gustave. Feet Was I to the Lame. London: Souvenir Press, 1977.

Sir William Osler

Abbott, Maude E. Sir William Osler, Memorial Number: Appreciations and Reminiscences. Montreal: s.n., 1927.

Bliss, Michael. William Osler: A Life in Medicine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Bryan, Charles. S. Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Howard, R. Palmer. The Chief, Doctor William Osler. Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications, 1983.

Osler, William, Sir. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton, 1892.

Dr. Wilder Penfield

Lewis, Jefferson. Something Hidden: A Biography of Wilder Penfield. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Goodread Biographies, 1983, c1981.

Penfield, Wilder. No Man Alone: A Neurosurgeon's Life. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1977.

Dr. Emily Stowe

Fryer, Mary Beacock. Emily Stowe: Doctor and Suffragist. Toronto: Hannah Institute: Dundurn Press, 1990.

McCallum, Margaret. Emily Stowe. Toronto: Grolier, 1989.

Ray, Janet. Emily Stowe. Don Mills, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1978.

Stanbridge, Joanne. Emily Stowe: Canada's First Woman Doctor. Don Mills, Ontario: Pearson Education Canada, 2005.

Waxman, Sydell. Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe. Toronto: Napoleon Publishing, 1996.

Dr. Lucille Teasdale

Cowley, Deborah. Lucille Teasdale: Doctor of Courage. Montreal: XYZ Publishing, 2005.

Links

History of Canadian Medicine

"History of Medicine." The Canadian Encyclopedia.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/
index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005203
(accessed March 18, 2006).

The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine.
http://meds.queensu.ca/medicine/histm/cshmweb/cshmhome.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

Sir Frederick Banting

Banting and Best Department of Medical Research.
www.utoronto.ca/bandb/index.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

Banting Digital Library.
http://calendar.county.simcoe.on.ca/partners/New%20Tec%20Library/banting/
index.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

"Banting House National Historic Site." Canadian Diabetes Association.
www.diabetes.ca/about-us/who/banting-house/
(accessed October 20, 2008).

"Dr. Frederick Grant Banting." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/index.php?laur_id=11&lang=e
(accessed March 18, 2006).

"A Great Canadian Breakthrough: The Discovery of Insulin." Canadian Medicine: Doctors and Discoveries.
www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/
study_guide/doctors/insulin.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

"Banting, Best, Macleod, Collip - Chasing a Cure for Diabetes." CBC Archives.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-75-702/science_technology/diabetes/
(accessed March 18, 2006).

"Frederick Banting." The Greatest Canadian. CBC.
www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/banting-frederick.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

Frederick G. Banting. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923.
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-bio.html
(accessed March 18, 2006).

Dr. Norman Bethune

Bethune Memorial House.
www.gravenhurst.ca/bethune/bethuneLinks.php
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Norman Bethune,1890-1939: “The Spirit of Absolute Selflessness.”" Canada Heirloom Series, Volume IV.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume4/volume4.htm
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Dr. Norman Bethune." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=37
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Mobile Blood Banks: The Innovative Dr. Norman Bethune." Canadian Medicine: Doctors and Discoveries.
www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/
study_guide/doctors/mobile_blood.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"'Comrade' Bethune: A Controversial Hero." CBC Archives.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-1345/people/bethune/
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Norman Bethune Tapestry." Charles Woodward Memorial Room.
www.library.ubc.ca/woodward/memoroom/exhibits/bethune/
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Bethune, Norman." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php
(accessed October 20, 2008).

"Norman Bethune." Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages.
www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/nb.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Dr. Gustave Gingras

"Gustave Gingras. "... a traveling salesman for rehabilitation..."" Canada Heirloom Series, Volume IV.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume4/volume4.htm
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Dr. Gustave Gingras." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=40
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Dr. Gustave Gingras Interview." Dark Side of the Sun.
www.geocities.com/canadianhongkongveteran/drgingras.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Rehabilitation: Educational and International." The Empire Club Addresses.
www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=1479&FT=yes
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Sir William Osler

"William Osler, International Doctor, 1849-1919." Canada Heirloom Series,Volume IV.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume4/volume4.htm
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Sir William Osler." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=10
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"The Doctor's Doctor, Sir William Osler." Canadian Medicine: Doctors and Discoveries. www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/
study_guide/doctors/will_osler.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler.
www.osler.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=24
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Osler, Sir William." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php
(accessed October 20, 2008).

McGill Library and Collections. Osler Library of the History of Medicine.
www.mcgill.ca/osler-library/
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"William Osler." ToInspire.
www.toinspire.com/author.asp?author=William+Osler
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Sir William Osler, Baronet." Who Named It?
www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1627.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Dr. Wilder Penfield

"Wilder Graves Penfield: Mapping the Brain, 1891-1976." Canada Heirloom Series, Volume IV.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume4/volume4.htm
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=15
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Brave Enough, Bold Enough for Brain Surgery: Dr. Wilder Penfield." Canadian Medicine: Doctors and Discoveries
www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/
study_guide/doctors/penfield.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Innovators. Wilder Penfield." Historica Minutes.
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/theme.do?id=10008&className=ca.histori.minutes.
entity.ClassicMinute
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital.
http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Dr. Emily Stowe

"A Female Pioneer: Dr. Emily Stowe ." Canadian Medicine: Doctors and Discoveries.
www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/
study_guide/doctors/emily_stowe.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Emily Jennings Stowe. Augusta Stowe Gullen."Celebrating Women's Achievements.
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-207-e.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Jennings, Emily Howard (Stowe)." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php
(accessed October 20, 2008).

"Emily Stowe." Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography.
www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/emilyjenningsstowe.html
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Augusta Stowe-Gullen fonds. Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/index.htm not a direct link.
(accessed March 19, 2006).

Dr. Lucille Teasdale

"Dr. Lucille Teasdale-Corti." The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=51
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Lucille Teasdale." The Great Names of the French Canadian Community.
http://franco.ca/edimage/grandspersonnages/en/carte_b06.html
(accessed March 20, 2006).

Canada and the World. Lucille Teasdale." Historica Minutes.
www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10117
(accessed March 19, 2006).

"Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership Program." The International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
www.idrc.ca/en/ev-94787-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
(accessed October 20, 2008)