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Esyllt Jones
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Professor
Dr. Esyllt W. Jones is the Humanities Research Professor, Faculty of Arts and Professor in the Departments of History and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. She is a historian of infectious disease and society, and the history of movements for socialized medicine. Her books include Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg (2007), Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society and Culture in Canada (2012) edited with Madga Fahrni, and Radical Medicine: the International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada (2019). The volume Medicare’s Histories: Origins, Opportunities, and Omissions in Canada, edited with James Hanley and Delia Gavrus, will be released in June 2022.
Publications/Papers
Jones, Esyllt W., James Hanley, and Delia Gavrus, eds. Medicare’s Histories: Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada. Univ. of Manitoba Press, 2022.,
Jones, Esyllt W., Shelley Sweeney, Ian Milligan, Greg Bak, and Jo-Anne McCutcheon. “Remembering is a form of honouring: preserving the COVID-19 archival record.” Facets 6, no. 1 (2021): 545-568.,
Jones, Esyllt Wynne. 2007. Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg. Studies in Gender and History 31. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
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