Partnership for Excellence
Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2021
- Category
- History, General, History
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487543396
- Publish Date
- May 2021
- List Price
- $73.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442645950
- Publish Date
- Jul 2013
- List Price
- $83.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442664043
- Publish Date
- Dec 2013
- List Price
- $71.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Edward Shorter is the Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, shortlisted for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He is also a two-time winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s Hannah Medal for writing in the history of medicine.
Editorial Reviews
‘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.’
Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014
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