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Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo

Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History  Sub-Series 2: Off My Quarantined Bookshelf First Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2020 / Shabbat, 23 Elul, 5780 Last updated on Monday, September 14, 2020 ===================================================================== Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo By: David Orenstein   Part 1, Introduction As my … Continue reading Stillman Drake’s Personal Copy of Discoveries and Opinions Of Galileo →

Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948)  

Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: How Cross-Border Movements of People and Ideas Shaped a Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948) By: Denisa Popa, University of Toronto   This is the second entry in a two-part series on the history of Women’s College Hospital (WCH). Cross-border movement and its important role in shaping Canadian women’s medical history is … Continue reading Migrating Ideas and Borrowed Designs: Canadian Women’s Hospital (1883-1948)   →

Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History, Pt. 1

Series: Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History  Sub-Series 1: Exploring Archival Resources at the University of Toronto First Posted on Friday, August 21, 2020 / Yom Shishi, 1 Elul, 5780 Last updated Friday, August 21, 2020 By: David Orenstein Once upon a time long, long ago in a country far, far away you could … Continue reading Personal Encounters With Primary Resources for Canadian Sci/Tech History, Pt. 1 →

Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967)

Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967) By Denisa Popa, University of Toronto This is the first entry in a two-part series on the history of Women’s College Hospital. One of the most documented figures in the history of Canadian medicine is Sir Frederick Banting, credited for his … Continue reading Henrietta, the Other Dr. Banting: Early Mammography Research at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital (1967) →

Le McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory : contexte d’émergence et d’activité

Le McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory : contexte d’émergence et d’activité Par Raphaël Pelletier, Université du Québec à Montréal Dans un entretien mené dans le cadre du 26e congrès international de l’Union géographique internationale (Sydney, 1988), Kenneth Hare soulignait l’importance de deux réalisations qu’il considérait de premier plan lors de son passage au département de géographie de … Continue reading Le McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory : contexte d’émergence et d’activité →

Envirotech and Environmentalism: Dr. Ursula Franklin and the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (1971)

Envirotech and Environmentalism: Dr. Ursula Franklin and the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (1971) By Denisa Popa, University of Toronto On Sunday January 12th, 2020, I was amongst the many people in Ontario who received an emergency alert from the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Although I was relieved to hear that the alert was sent in … Continue reading Envirotech and Environmentalism: Dr. Ursula Franklin and the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (1971) →

CFP: Expertise and Uncertainty

Spontaneous Generations, a scholarly journal published by the graduate students of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, invites contributions to its 11th volume. Experts occupy an increasingly contested space in our society. Politicians challenge the expertise of public health officials amidst the COVID-19 pandemic; climate change deniers … Continue reading CFP: Expertise and Uncertainty →

CSTHA Database Project / Le projet de base de données de l’AHSTC

CSTHA Database Project Theses and Dissertations in the field of history of science, technology, and medicine in Canada since 2000 Le projet de base de données de l’AHSTC Les thèses et mémoires en histoire des sciences, des technologies et de la médecine au Canada depuis 2000 The field of history of science, technology, and medicine is … Continue reading CSTHA Database Project / Le projet de base de données de l’AHSTC →

COVID-19: Engagements from the History of Medicine

COVID-19: Engagements from the History of Medicine By Denisa Popa, University of Toronto Historians of any discipline are tasked with justifying the importance and relevance of their work. Living in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, historians of medicine find their work situated and viewed in a different light as the history of pandemics and … Continue reading COVID-19: Engagements from the History of Medicine →