TY - BOOK ID - 77892603 TI - Manitoba medicine AU - Carr, Ian AU - Beamish, Robert E PY - 1999 SN - 1283090902 9786613090904 0887553427 9780887553424 0887556604 9780887556609 PB - Winnipeg, Man. University of Manitoba Press DB - UniCat KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Health Workforce KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Health services KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Public health KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892603 AB - For many Canadians, the state of our health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into where our present medical system came from and how it developed .Beginning with a description of some early Aboriginal healing practices and of the physicians of the Red River Settlement, Manitoba Medicine follows the struggles in the 1870s to establish what would become the first medical college and the first major hospitals in Western Canada. It chronicles the fight for public health in the 1920s, the development of health insurance and medicare after WWII, and medicine's role in fighting the 1950 Winnipeg Flood and the polio epidemic of the late 1950s. Manitoba Medicine also provides vivid accounts of many of the individuals who built Manitoba's medical system, including early educators like Swale Vincent, pioneering women physicians such as Charlotte Ross, important researchers like Bruce Chown, and colourful private practitioners such as Murrough O'Brien. ER -