Research Catalog

Title

Labour in the laboratory : medical laboratory workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950 / Peter L. Twohig.

Author

Twohig, Peter

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

xvi, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Medical laboratory technology is currently the third largest health profession in Canada but those who work in it remain largely invisible, both to the public and in the literature. In Labour in the Laboratory Peter Twohig examines the origins of the laboratory workforce in the Maritime provinces and rethinks the broader history of the twentieth-century Canadian hospital."--Jacket.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 23

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society 23.

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• Laboratories, Hospital
• History, 20th Century
• Biomedical Technology > organization & administration
• Medical Laboratory Personnel > organization & administration
• Medical Laboratory Personnel
• Medical technologists > Maritime Provinces > History > 20th century
• Hospital laboratories > Maritime Provinces > History > 20th century
• Techniciens de laboratoire médical > Provinces maritimes > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Hôpitaux > Laboratoires > Histoire > Provinces maritimes > 20e siècle
• Canada

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-233) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Laboratory work in the Maritimes : the institutional context -- 3. content of laboratory work -- 4. Not just bench warmers : labour in the laboratory -- 5. Diffuse roles and multitasking -- 6. Recruitment, mobility, and wages.

ISBN

077352861X

OCLC

• 56920474
• SCSB-12551130

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library