… , Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this imperfect technology beginning
in the 1950s and leading up to the present day. McKellar … McKellar argues that desirability—…

… Shelley McKellar Shelley McKellar … See Shelley McKellar, The Career of Gordon Murray:
Patterns of Change in Mid-Twentieth Century Medicine in Canada [Ph.D. Thesis, University …

Shelley McKellar's Surgical Limits chronicles the life of one of Canada's most prominent and
controversial surgeons, Gordon Murray (1894-1976). McKellar … medicine, McKellar argues, …

On December 3, 1967, South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted a
healthy heart into 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, expanding organ-replacement therapy …

In 2004, the authors redeveloped the UWO Medical Artifact Collection as a teaching and
research resource. Students enjoy learning through objects and gain new historical inquiry …

Museums, as institutional repositories of natural and cultural heritage, have a significant role
to play within the community, a role which is advocated-or at least acknowledged-by society …

The twentieth century was a period of dramatic surgical innovations, during which surgeons
increasingly performed ever greater interventionist reparative operations. Surgery as a …

Heart Beat is a medical disaster novel, published in 1978, that foret perils of an atomic
artificial heart. It is a story of Dr. William Brad daring efforts to save the life of a dying patient …

This thesis describes some aspects of mid-twentieth century developments in Canadian
medicine through the exceptional career of Gordon Murray (1894-1976). His Toronto surgical …

Historically, the effective development of mechanical circulatory support systems occurred
through iterative device improvement of benchwork, animal testing, and early clinical trials. …