Shorter, Edward,

Partnership for excellence : medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals / Edward Shorter. - Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 930 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits

Includes bibliographies and index.

1 Introduction -- 2 At the Corner of College and University -- 3 An Afternoon in October 1903 -- 4 Getting Going -- 5 Big Deeds -- 6 Surgery -- 7 The Surgical Subspecialties -- 8 Medicine -- 9 The Medical Subspecialties -- 10 The Children's Hospital -- 11 Research -- 12 An Academic Health Sciences Complex -- 13 Cancer Care -- 14 Neuroscience and Psychiatry -- 15 Anatomy -- 16 Physiology/Banting and Best/Biochemistry/Pharmacology/Nutrition -- 17 Medical Biophysics/Biomedical Engineering/Immunology -- 18 Laboratory Medicine (Pathology/Microbiology/Pathological Chemistry) -- 19 Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology -- 20 Anesthesia and Radiology -- 21 Obstetrics and Gynaecology -- 22 New Talent : Mount Sinai Hospital and Women's College Hospital -- 23 REhabilitation -- 24 Family and Community -- 25 Hospitals -- 26 New Ideas -- 27 Student Life and Learning -- 28 Molecular Medicine -- 29 The Deans -- 30 Epilogue.

In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details the Faculty of Medicine's history from its inception as a small provincial school to its present day status as an international powerhouse.



9781442664036


University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine --History.
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine.


Teaching hospitals--History.--Ontario--Toronto


Electronic Books.

R749 / .P378 2013