{"product_id":"sickkids-9781442647237","title":"SickKids","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e‘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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187500147031,"sku":"9781442647237","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sickkids-9781442647237","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}