All are invited to join Carleton University’s History Department for this year’s Shannon Lecture series, which will examine the social, intellectual and cultural history of health, sickness, disease and medicine. Throughout the term we have four accomplished speakers who will consider cultural perceptions of the body, health and illness and will tease out some of the shifting patterns of treatment over the past three hundred years. For more information about the lecture schedule and the speakers, please visit https://carleton.ca/history/news/shannon-lecture/.
The next Shannon lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Health Sciences, will be given on November 18 by Professor Maureen Lux who will talk about the history of the treatment of indigenous peoples in the Canadian healthcare system after 1945. Maureen Lux teaches history at Brock University. Her latest book, Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s to 1980s was published earlier this year and she is currently collaborating on a book about reproductive politics in 1970s Canada.