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The following vignettes were chosen by our group for highlighting Myra Bennett’s compassion for the isolated communities in northwest Newfoundland. While working, Alex Bennett slipped and fell onto a lumber saw, severing his ankle joint. After cleaning and stitching his hanging foot to his leg, Myra and Alex traveled 60 miles to the doctor in Bonne Bay while Myra was pregnant. Due to her efforts, amputation was avoided. (Green, 1973/2012, pp. 127-133) Traveling from Cow Head, a patient with an infected finger and swollen lymph glands visited Myra for treatment. Myra contacted a nearby doctor as she was not able to provide optimal care. The patient was unable to afford the 80 dollar surgery fee, so Myra paid for it. (Green, 1973/2012, pp.
Retrieved December 6, 2013, from http://www.fncfcs.com/sites/default/files/online-journal/vol3num1/Sinclair_pp65.pdf Smith, C. (2013, September 1). A Legacy of Canadian Child Care: Surviving the Sixties Scoop. Briarpatch Magazine, Part 1. Retrieved December 6, 2013, from http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-legacy-of-canadian-child-care Steckley, J., & Cummins, B. D. (2008). Full Circle: Canada's First Nations (2nd ed.).
Myra Maybelle Shirley also commonly known as the “Bandit Queen” was born on February 5, 1848, on a farm near Carthage, Missouri. She was one of six children, but the only daughter of her farmer parents, John and Elizabeth Shirley. When her family moved into Carthage her father became a prosperous innkeeper and slave holder. Belle attended the Carthage Female Academy, where she excelled in reading, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, manner, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and developed a love for playing the piano. She later attended another private school named Cravens, where she further nurtured her love for music. At the start of the Civil War, her parents were southern sympathizers and supporters of Confederate troops in Missouri. Myra’s parents were apparently pleased, and were even more dedicated to supporting the Confederate cause when their oldest son, John, joined a squad of bushwhackers in bloody reprisals along the Missouri-Kansas border. Later that as a result of fighting for the Confederacy with William C. Quantrill's guerillas, John was killed by Union troops in Sarcoxie, Missouri. Many believe that his influence led Belle in the decision of her life’s direction. By 1864, after Carthage was burned, the family had migrated to Scyene, Texas, near Dallas, and again established a hotel and tavern. They soon had multiple intriguing visitors.
Chawla, M., Windak, A., Berman, P., & Kulis, M. (1997). Paying the Physician: Review of Different Methods. Data for Decision Making Project,Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussetts
Resection was a process that “involved cutting open the limb, sawing out the damaged bone, and then closing the incision” (Jones, 1). Resection allows the patient to keep his limbs but it requires a great ordeal of time and skill. This also contributed to the common practice of amputation during the war. But there were cases where surgeons did use this method. Terry J. Jones said in his NY Times article, “resections were used more frequently after surgeons learned that amputations had a much higher mortality rate” (Jones, 1). In another article by Corydon Ireland, it describes Mitchell Adam’s, a Harvard lecturer, grandfather who served as a volunteer surgeon during the Civil War. In the article, “Adams was not a champion of hasty amputations, but argued for excision and other limb-saving measures. And he describes the everyday pressures of a country practice in Framingham, Mass” (Ireland, 1). This meant that not all surgeons at the time only wanted to amputate but strived for alternate methods. This new knowledge shows that some surgeons were more dedicated to thinking about the well-being of their patients than others and this opens up to other possibilities that may have occurred during the war. This allows an image to come to mind of a surgeon diligently operating on a soldier with care and compassion. However, even though there may be many possibilities, we can’t truly know every event that occurs during a
Lawson, Mary. The Other Side of the Bridge. Vintage Canada ed. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2007. Print.
Rollings-Magnusson begins in her introduction by explaining that her book “. . . details the findings of a study into the role that children’s work played in the operation of family farms in the western Canadian prairie region during the period of settlement between 1871 and 1913.” Rollings-Magnusson has gathered her information from various sources including: diaries, memoirs, letters, and poems of pioneer children as well as official records. While Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders seems sometimes unnecessarily repetitive, it does contain some interesting and surprising information about the lives and labour of prairie children.
The first female psychiatrists working the asylums were not were not as McGovern put it “movers and shakers” (541). These women faced constant discrimination in their work. Being viewed as less ambitious and incapable of performing as well as a man, female psychiatry, unsurprisingly, rarely had a position of authority. Male assistances received special training opportunities which in turn led them to be promoted while women were stuck in low paying positions. In 1881, Alice Bennett, one of the earliest females to be appointed “Female Physician”, found herself in a small controversy regarding surgery. Despite the fact that Bennett made great strides for the improvement of patient treatment in asylums, she faced brutal attacks from people who
Marquise Lepage’s documentary, Martha of the North (2009) provides an insight to the 1953 forced relocation of the Inuit from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic. It does an exceptional job at explaining how the Inuit’s lives were affected and molded at a holistic perspective. Martha of the North (2009) can be explained through the concept of holism and its limitations. The concept of holism can explain the effects that the relocations has had on the Inuit people. Although the Inuit’s behaviour can be analyzed through the concept there are aspects of their experience that holism does not account for. The documentary follows the life of one of the first Inuit to be relocated, a woman named Martha, along with her family and the people in her community.
Higgins, J. (2008). Lifestyle of Fishers, 1600-1900. Retrieved June 14, 2014, from Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage: http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/fishers_lifestyle.html
Over the years, many influential Canadian activists and citizens have changed Canada for the better, whether it be by their actions or by their overall dominance on Canadian history. This exhibit, the Canadian Activists and Citizens exhibit, was created to demonstrate the righteousness of 10 different Canadian activists or citizens who have contributed positively towards the history of Canada. These people demonstrated a sense of responsibility, devotion, and above all, a strong mentality which assisted Canadian citizens in many ways. These figures, ranging from a group of female rights advocators, to a man who ran across Canada, possessed such traits. Their actions contributed greatly towards the peace in Canada, as it brought order and freedom.
In the story The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams, two worried parents pay three dollars to a Doctor to visit their very sick daughter, Mathilda. The Doctor needs to
Nellie was not your average housewife. She made observations: women were abused, uneducated, and robbed of their rights. Subsequently, women became the subject of her writing. Many years later, she moved to Winnipeg and became a public speaker and advocate of women’s r...
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
Norton, Kim. “A Brief History of Prosthetics”. Limb Loss Resource Center, Volume 17 Issue 7, Amputee Coalition, Nov/Dec 2007, www.amputee-coalition.org/resources/a-brief-history-of-prosthetics/. Accessed 14 Dec
Roughing it in the Bush is a story that chronicles the hardships and triumphs faced by early settlers in Northern Canada. Susanna Moodie creates vivid portraits of through the way she stresses the degradation relating her status as a gentlewoman, the necessity for manual labour in a new world, and the discrepancy between refined society and the pioneer community. Relaying a cautionary tale, Susanna Moodie uses a straightforward prose filled with hyperbolized descriptions that show a negative bias influenced by her personal hardships and way of life to inform potential emigrants about the realities of living in the bush and to forewarn readers that the pioneer life is not suited towards the upper class and rather, is detrimental to their economic and social status.