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The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days represent a series of volumes in the history of medicine and healthcare that publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, hence providing a unique publishing format. The annual Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference, established in 1991, brings together undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the USA, the UK, and Europe to give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and healthcare from an interdisciplinary perspective. The History of Medicine Days offers an annual platform for discussions and exchanges between participants over recent research findings, methodological perspectives, or work-in-progress descriptions of ongoing historiographical projects.This book brings together a number of reviewed and edited conference papers, comprising topics from historical medical classics, physicianship and the doctor's role, military medicine, and disfigured bodies in anatomical and media perspectives. In addition, it includes the papers given by the conference's internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr Guel Russel. It further comprises all of the abstracts of the conference for documentation purposes and is well illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.

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Aleksandra Loewenau is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Canada. She holds a PhD in the History of Medicine from Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. Her research interests are the Holocaust, migration, war, European, and gender studies.William J. Pratt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, supported by Associated Medical Services (Toronto, Ontario), working in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine. He has worked as an Instructor in Canadian and Military History at the University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal University, and the University of Calgary, Canada. He received his PhD in History in 2014 from the University of Calgary, and his research interests comprise the history of psychiatry, military medicine, military history, and Canadian history. Frank W. Stahnisch is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he also holds the AMF/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care in the Faculty of Medicine.

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