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Voices in Healthcare

Journals and Other Material at the HSA

Content will be added as we continue processing our collections. 

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Our Collections

  • Dr. Arthur Richard Butson's journal documents his experience in the Antarctic in 1947 as the medical officer for a British team sent there as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.
  • Dr. May Cohen and Dr. Gerry Cohen maintained personal and professional journals while on sabbatical in Australia between 1987 and 1988. As faculty members in McMaster's Department of Family Medicine, they travelled to Australia to deliver seminars to doctors on how to discuss human sexuality with their patients. There, Dr. May Cohen learned of an ongoing study investigating women’s health needs in each state. Inspired by this effort, upon her return, Cohen spearheaded the development of a Women’s Health Office at McMaster. More information about the journals can be found here (link opens external archival database).
  • Mindy Potter is a McMaster employee with the Foundation for Medical Practice Education. Her journal documents her life in the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic from January 2020 to August 2020.
  • Louise Caravaggio is a library staff member at McMaster’s Health Sciences Library. In March 2021 she wrote a series of reflections relating to her life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The Syndrome was a newsletter published between 1975 and 1985 by students in the undergraduate medical school at McMaster. These newsletters are full of entries that reveal life at McMaster through the student’s perspective. They include letters to the editor, written articles, poetry, puzzles, and comic strips. Many of the entries are opinion pieces and commentary on the medical education program at McMaster or are humorous in nature and poke fun at Med student life.
  • Edward James Moran Campbell (better known as Moran) (1925-2004) was a physician, scientist, and educator. He was considered the foremost clinical respiratory physiologist of his generation and directly influenced how respiratory medicine is taught in England and Canada. He was a professor and founding Chair of the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. He published a memoir in 1988 called Not Always on the Level, which details his life and work while living with bipolar disorder. This memoir and its original manuscript, as well as an unpublished updated edition, are in the holdings of the Health Sciences Archives.