To Advocate, To Diffuse and To Elevate: The Culture and Context of Medical Publishing in Canada, 1630 to 1920

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Title
To Advocate, To Diffuse and To Elevate: The Culture and Context of Medical Publishing in Canada, 1630 to 1920
Abstract
Victorian Montreal was the leading publishing centre of English-language Canadian medical titles. The author examines medical publications and the process of medical publishing in Canada, focusing especially on the period 1785 to the 1920s. Using evidence from the main genres themselves--pamphlets, books, journals--as well as from physicians' personal papers, records of professional practice, and estate records, library, bookseller and medical school catalogues, she analyzes key stages in the publishing cycle from authorship or editorship to production, distribution and reception (ownership and feedback from readers). In so doing, the author considers the relationships between the genres, their publishing context (i.e., legal, intellectual, social, political), and Canadian culture. She points out that most medical publishing in Canada occurred in Quebec and Ontario; that medical publications in English and French reflect different aspects of the two cultures; and that Canadian medical publishing generally followed international trends with respect to the professionalization of medicine -- albeit approximately fifty years later. The author concludes that although a solid trade in medical publishing never developed in Canada as it did elsewhere (notably the United States and Great Britain), Canadian attempts to do so reflect preoccupations with geography, politics, language, and international recognition.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
University of Western Ontario
Place
London, ON
Date
1992
# of Pages
viii-395p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Connor, Jennifer J. “To Advocate, To Diffuse and To Elevate: The Culture and Context of Medical Publishing in Canada, 1630 to 1920.” PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 1992. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3242&context=digitizedtheses.
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