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Edward Shorter

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.

Books by Edward Shorter

The Heartbeat of Innovation

A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital

by (author) Edward Shorter, Hugh E. Scully & Bernard S. Goldman

The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology

by (author) Edward Shorter

Partnership for Excellence

Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals

by (author) Edward Shorter

The Madness of Fear

A History of Catatonia

by (author) Edward Shorter & Max Fink

How Everyone Became Depressed

The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

by (author) Edward Shorter

Endocrine Psychiatry

Solving the Riddle of Melancholia

by (author) Edward Shorter & Max Fink

Before Prozac

The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

by (author) Edward Shorter

Shock Therapy

A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

by (author) Edward Shorter & David Healy

Written in the Flesh

A History of Desire

by (author) Edward Shorter

A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry

by (author) Edward Shorter