JJR Macleod Reconsidered
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Frederick Banting and John James Rickard Macleod…
Essays
JJR Macleod Special Issue of CJHH
I am very pleased to announce that the JJR Macleod special issue of Canadian Journal of Health History (Volume 40, issue 2) is now live on the…
Dr. Caroline Sophia Brown
My entry on Dr. Caroline Sophia Brown (1862-1936) is Biography of the Week at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Brown served as a physician in…
Remembering Insulin, et al
I was delighted to write a paper with Patrick M. Walsh, doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reflecting on the glandular products that filled…
Insulin’s Centenary: complexity and collaboration
I was invited to contribute an article on the Insulin centenary to The Lancet. I discuss this year’s celebrations and what we might still learn…
Rethinking the ‘discovery’ of insulin
I have a new article today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal entitled “Rethinking the ‘discovery’ of insulin” in which I argue that our use…
The Discovery of Insulin Special Centenary Edition
The new Special Centenary Edition of Michael Bliss’s The Discovery of Insulin is just out from University of Toronto Press! I was honoured to write…
Defining Moments
My article “Success Has Many Parents: J. B. Collip’s Role in the Discovery of Insulin” appears on the Defining Moments Canada website.