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The University of Winnipeg is hosting a symposium on the history of Canadian Medicare on Friday, September 28th and Saturday, September 29th.
For additional information, please contact medicareat50@uwinnipeg.ca
The programme of the symposium is presented below:
Friday 28 September 2018
8:45-9:00 AM: Opening Remarks
9:00-10:30 AM: Social/Socialized Medicine before Medicare
JTH Connor (Memorial University): “One foot on each side of the border”: Dr Frederick Dodge Mott, Rural Health and “Socialized” Medical Care in the United States and Canada, 1930s-1970s
Esyllt Jones (University of Manitoba): What Was Socialized Medicine? Revisiting the Radical Pre-History of Medicare
Kathryn McPherson (York University): “Did Medicare Make Nursing Work Invisible?”
10:30-11:00 AM: Break
11:00-12:00 PM: Health in the Community
Megan Davies (York University): Medicare Minus: Local Health Policy meets Neo-Liberalism
Erika Dyck (University of Saskatchewan): Mental Health and Medicare: Who Cares?
12:00-1:30: Break
1:30-3:00 PM: Professional Discontents / Health Economics
Jacalyn Duffin (Queen’s University): Chief Complaint: Physician Discontent with Canadian Medicare
Sasha Mullally (University of New Brunswick): Medicine in the “Muskeg Metropolis”: Health Service Transformation in Canadian Resource Towns, 1960-1975
Catherine Carstairs (University of Guelph): The Failure to Implement Denticare in Canada
2:30-3:00 PM: Break
3:00-4:00 PM: After Medicare: Challenge and Change
Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo): Prevention or Cure: The Contested History of Public Health and Medicare, 1960-2018
Mary Jane McCallum (University of Winnipeg) and Maureen Lux (Brock University): Medicare vs Medicine Chest: Court Challenges and Treaty Rights to Healthcare
Saturday, 29 September 2018
10:00-11:30 AM: Popular Discontents
Whitney Wood (University of Calgary): Medicare and Maternity: Historicizing Inequities in Women’s Health
Geoff Hudson (Northern Ontario School of Medicine): Medicare in Canada from a Disability Rights Perspective, Ontario c. 1975-1990
David Churchill (University of Manitoba): “Who Owns AIDS?” The Historical and Medical Challenges of a Public Health Response to HIV/AIDS in Toronto (1981-1991)
11:30-1:00 PM: Break
1:00-2:30: Roundtable/Panel Discussion: Medicare: Past, Present, and Future
Location: Eckhardt Gramatte Hall
Drs. Barry Lavallee, Esyllt Jones, Erika Dyck, Geoff Hudson, Catherine Carstairs