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Book SynopsisDavid Wright's SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children chronicles the remarkable history of SickKids, including its triumphs and tragedies, its discoveries and dead-ends.
Trade Review‘SickKids is an impressive work of scholarship that should interest clinicians, historians, parents, and anyone interested in children’s health and social welfare policy.’ -- Cynthia A. Connolly * Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Online June 13 2017 *
‘Wright’s history combines splendid scholarship with compelling readability and wise judgement. SickKids becomes difficult to put down, which is highest praise I can give for an institutional history.’ -- Michael Bliss * Canadian Historical Review vol 98:02:2017 *
‘Enlivened by aptly selected illustrations and lucid prose, SickKids is an outstanding contribution to medical history in Canada.’ -- Karen Walloch * Isis vol 108:04:2017 *
‘David Wright’s excellent history…provides the first comprehensive account of [Sickkids] hospital since its founding over 140 years ago…[This] book is highly recommended to historians interested in hospital, childcare, and pediatric medical/surgical history, and to the general interested reader.’ -- Judith Young * Historical Studies in Education Review Vol 30:1:2018 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword List of Images and Tables Introduction Chapter 1: Between the Cradle and the Grave Chapter 2: The Sweetest of All the Charities Chapter 3: The Paper Tyrant Chapter 4: Club Feet and Crooked Limbs Chapter 5: Milk Sewage Chapter 6: Irradiation Chapter 7: Iron Lungs Chapter 8: Visiting Hours Chapter 9: The Rabbit Warren Chapter 10: Blue Babies Chapter 11: A Sisterhood of Nursing Chapter 12: Tragedy and Transformation: Chapter 13: The Atrium Chapter 14: A Genetic Wilderness Chapter 15: A Hospital without Walls Epilogue Further Reading Index
