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Partnership for Excellence
Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Edward Shorter (Author)
9781487543396
Paperback / softback, published 30 May 2021
992 pages, 50 b&w illustrations
24.4 x 17 x 5 cm, 1.57 kg
‘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)
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.
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