Catherine Carstairs
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1451732 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Catherine Carstairs |
| NOMBRES | Catherine |
| APELLIDO | Carstairs |
| FIRMA | CARSTAIRS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6054-0661 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Insidious habits”
“Needling Doubts”
Since the 1980s, there has been a growing anti-vaccination movement in English-speaking Canada created by a small number of people with alternative understandings of health and medicine, and by parents who believe their children were harmed by vaccination. The anti-vaccination movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was fuelled by growing concerns about environmental toxicity, skepticism about the motivations of the pharma…
Heroin
Sara Z. MacDonald, University Women
organizations and abstinence-only education might have been better illuminated with a chronological structure
Inventing the Thrifty Gene
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Before #MeToo
This article examines the campaign against sexual harassment conducted at Ontario universities between 1979 and 1994, looking closely at four universities: York, Queen’s, Toronto, and Carleton. Sources examined included campus newspapers, national media, and the CAUT Bulletin. The term “sexual harassment” was only coined in 1975, but it was quickly taken up by campus feminists in Ontario who successfully fought to have universities adopt policies…
More than Cleaning and Caring
Dental hygiene has been a female‐dominated profession that worked primarily for dentists who, until very recently, were usually male. This article explores the early history of dental hygiene in Canada during the 1950s and 1960s; its explosive growth in the 1970s; the influence of feminism on the profession; and the battles dental hygienists fought to improve the status of their profession including better educational opportunities; professional …
Cigarette Nation
Reviewed by: Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930–1975 by Daniel J. Robinson Catherine Carstairs Robinson, Daniel J. – Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930–1975. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 352 p. At my high school in the 1980s, very few friends of mine smoked. The smokers were headbangers or preppies, not the International Baccalaureate (IB) students like me. I…
Colonial Extractions
Indigenous Peoples in Canada currently experience much higher rates of oral health problems than their non-Indigenous counterparts. A number of recent reports have shown that Indigenous children have very high rates of tooth decay, that large numbers of Indigenous people report experiencing ongoing and persistent pain in their mouths, and that significantly more Indigenous people than non-Indigenous Canadians have no teeth at all. These oral heal…
Stacie Burke. Building Resistance
Stacie Burke. Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium Stacie Burke. Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 576 pp. Catherine Carstairs Catherine Carstairs University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East; Guelph, ON; N1G 2W1 E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal …
Wendy Mitchinson, Fighting Fat, Canada 1920–1980
Fighting Fat makes an important contribution to the growing field of fat history. Mitchinson provides a thorough account of the medical construction of obesity, while also being attentive to the larger cultural construction of fat, of which medical discourse is only a part. The first two-thirds of the book have a strong medical orientation. Mitchinson starts with a discussion of nutrition as a field of study—in the 1920s, the dominant concern was…
The Dangers of Complacency
Our contribution will focus on some of the intellectual developments occurring in gender history/women’s history in Canada in the twenty-first century, while also drawing attention to the decline of women’s history outside of the university environment. In the mid-1990s there was a vigorous debate over the merits of gender history vs. women’s history. Over the past decade, these debates have quieted along with a growing recognition that gender hi…
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Carstairs Responds
AffiliationsCatherine Carstairs is with the History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Vaccine Nation
Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 353 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $18.00 (paper). Given extensive news reports about parents refusing to vaccinate their children, it might seem surprising that American children actually receive more vaccinations than ever before. Less than 0.5 percent of children receive no vaccines at all. In this smart and balanced book,…
Debating Water Fluoridation Before Dr. Strangelove
In the 1930s, scientists learned that small amounts of fluoride naturally occurring in water could protect teeth from decay, and the idea of artificially adding fluoride to public water supplies to achieve the same effect arose. In the 1940s and early 1950s, a number of studies were completed to determine whether fluoride could have harmful effects. The research suggested that the possibility of harm was small. In the early 1950s, Canadian and US…
Look Younger, Live Longer’
Our Sickness Record Is a National Disgrace
America's most widely read nutritionist of the postwar decades, Adelle Davis, helped to shape Americans' eating habits, their child-feeding practices, their views about the quality of their food supply, and their beliefs about the impact of nutrition on their emotional and physical health. This paper closely examines Davis's writings and argues that even though she is often associated with countercultural food reformers like Alice Waters and Fran…
Feminist History in Canada
In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the themes and methodological approaches that have preoccupied historians over the past…
Disability and Citizenship in the Life and Fiction of Jean Little
Jean Little a été une des premières auteures pour enfants à traiter abondamment de questions liées aux handicaps. Ses opinions à ce sujet ont certes été influencées par sa propre déficience visuelle, mais aussi par le travail missionnaire de sa famille à l’étranger et l’engagement de celle-ci envers la justice sociale au pays. Les historiens du handicap ont souvent mis l’accent sur la conception du « modèle social » de handicap comme élément fond…
Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge, Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs
This tightly written book builds on the authors' previous work on drugs and health policy to explore the interactions between the voluntary sector and the state in the field of drug policy and treatment from the 1960s to the present. Providing detailed profiles of many of the agencies in the field, they examine how government funding changed their mandates and organisations. They trace the significant changes that have taken place in the UK with …
Expertise, Health, and Popular Opinion
Historians have often painted the 1950s and early 1960s as a time of technological optimism, faith in science and medicine, and belief in experts. In fact, there was more anxiety about medical and scientific progress than has often been acknowledged. This anxiety was perhaps most strongly expressed in one of the most hotly debated issues of the day – water fluoridation. Fluoridation referendums can tell us much about how voters responded to the v…
Craig Heron — Booze
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Wide World of Doping
The wide world of doping : drug scandals, natural bodies, and the business of sports entertainment
Becoming a “Hype”
In the late 1940s and 1950s a new subculture of heroin use developed in Vancouver and Toronto. The users were primarily working-class or poor and often came from troubled family backgrounds. Heroin use was a way of satisfying longings and cravings and of establishing a sense of identity and community. Heroin's status as a banned substance with a frightening reputation ensured that consuming it was also an act of defiance and resistance against co…
No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit
Debating Water Fluoridation Before Dr. Strangelove
In the 1930s, scientists learned that small amounts of fluoride naturally occurring in water could protect teeth from decay, and the idea of artificially adding fluoride to public water supplies to achieve the same effect arose. In the 1940s and early 1950s, a number of studies were completed to determine whether fluoride could have harmful effects. The research suggested that the possibility of harm was small. In the early 1950s, Canadian and US…
Becoming a “Hype”
In the late 1940s and 1950s a new subculture of heroin use developed in Vancouver and Toronto. The users were primarily working-class or poor and often came from troubled family backgrounds. Heroin use was a way of satisfying longings and cravings and of establishing a sense of identity and community. Heroin's status as a banned substance with a frightening reputation ensured that consuming it was also an act of defiance and resistance against co…
Carstairs Responds
AffiliationsCatherine Carstairs is with the History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Defining Whiteness
African-American writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Ida B. Wells have regarded “whiteness” as a problem for a long time. However, it is only fairly recently that white historians have taken seriously the importance of de-naturalizing “whiteness,” and critically examining its privileges. “Defining Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives in North American History,” was sponsored by the University of Toronto and York Histor…
No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit
"The Most Dangerous Drug"
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Defining Whiteness
African-American writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Ida B. Wells have regarded “whiteness” as a problem for a long time. However, it is only fairly recently that white historians have taken seriously the importance of de-naturalizing “whiteness,” and critically examining its privileges. “Defining Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender Perspectives in North American History,” was sponsored by the University of Toronto and York Histor…
Becoming a “Hype”
In the late 1940s and 1950s a new subculture of heroin use developed in Vancouver and Toronto. The users were primarily working-class or poor and often came from troubled family backgrounds. Heroin use was a way of satisfying longings and cravings and of establishing a sense of identity and community. Heroin's status as a banned substance with a frightening reputation ensured that consuming it was also an act of defiance and resistance against co…
The Wide World of Doping
The wide world of doping : drug scandals, natural bodies, and the business of sports entertainment
Craig Heron — Booze
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Expertise, Health, and Popular Opinion
Historians have often painted the 1950s and early 1960s as a time of technological optimism, faith in science and medicine, and belief in experts. In fact, there was more anxiety about medical and scientific progress than has often been acknowledged. This anxiety was perhaps most strongly expressed in one of the most hotly debated issues of the day – water fluoridation. Fluoridation referendums can tell us much about how voters responded to the v…
Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge, Voluntary Action and Illegal Drugs
This tightly written book builds on the authors' previous work on drugs and health policy to explore the interactions between the voluntary sector and the state in the field of drug policy and treatment from the 1960s to the present. Providing detailed profiles of many of the agencies in the field, they examine how government funding changed their mandates and organisations. They trace the significant changes that have taken place in the UK with …
Disability and Citizenship in the Life and Fiction of Jean Little
Jean Little a été une des premières auteures pour enfants à traiter abondamment de questions liées aux handicaps. Ses opinions à ce sujet ont certes été influencées par sa propre déficience visuelle, mais aussi par le travail missionnaire de sa famille à l’étranger et l’engagement de celle-ci envers la justice sociale au pays. Les historiens du handicap ont souvent mis l’accent sur la conception du « modèle social » de handicap comme élément fond…
Feminist History in Canada
In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the themes and methodological approaches that have preoccupied historians over the past…
Look Younger, Live Longer’
Our Sickness Record Is a National Disgrace
America's most widely read nutritionist of the postwar decades, Adelle Davis, helped to shape Americans' eating habits, their child-feeding practices, their views about the quality of their food supply, and their beliefs about the impact of nutrition on their emotional and physical health. This paper closely examines Davis's writings and argues that even though she is often associated with countercultural food reformers like Alice Waters and Fran…
Debating Water Fluoridation Before Dr. Strangelove
In the 1930s, scientists learned that small amounts of fluoride naturally occurring in water could protect teeth from decay, and the idea of artificially adding fluoride to public water supplies to achieve the same effect arose. In the 1940s and early 1950s, a number of studies were completed to determine whether fluoride could have harmful effects. The research suggested that the possibility of harm was small. In the early 1950s, Canadian and US…
When Good Drugs Go Bad
Carstairs Responds
AffiliationsCatherine Carstairs is with the History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Vaccine Nation
Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization, by Elena Conis. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 353 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $18.00 (paper). Given extensive news reports about parents refusing to vaccinate their children, it might seem surprising that American children actually receive more vaccinations than ever before. Less than 0.5 percent of children receive no vaccines at all. In this smart and balanced book,…
The Dangers of Complacency
Our contribution will focus on some of the intellectual developments occurring in gender history/women’s history in Canada in the twenty-first century, while also drawing attention to the decline of women’s history outside of the university environment. In the mid-1990s there was a vigorous debate over the merits of gender history vs. women’s history. Over the past decade, these debates have quieted along with a growing recognition that gender hi…
Wendy Mitchinson, Fighting Fat, Canada 1920–1980
Fighting Fat makes an important contribution to the growing field of fat history. Mitchinson provides a thorough account of the medical construction of obesity, while also being attentive to the larger cultural construction of fat, of which medical discourse is only a part. The first two-thirds of the book have a strong medical orientation. Mitchinson starts with a discussion of nutrition as a field of study—in the 1920s, the dominant concern was…
Colonial Extractions
Indigenous Peoples in Canada currently experience much higher rates of oral health problems than their non-Indigenous counterparts. A number of recent reports have shown that Indigenous children have very high rates of tooth decay, that large numbers of Indigenous people report experiencing ongoing and persistent pain in their mouths, and that significantly more Indigenous people than non-Indigenous Canadians have no teeth at all. These oral heal…
Stacie Burke. Building Resistance
Stacie Burke. Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium Stacie Burke. Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 576 pp. Catherine Carstairs Catherine Carstairs University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East; Guelph, ON; N1G 2W1 E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal …
Before #MeToo
This article examines the campaign against sexual harassment conducted at Ontario universities between 1979 and 1994, looking closely at four universities: York, Queen’s, Toronto, and Carleton. Sources examined included campus newspapers, national media, and the CAUT Bulletin. The term “sexual harassment” was only coined in 1975, but it was quickly taken up by campus feminists in Ontario who successfully fought to have universities adopt policies…
More than Cleaning and Caring
Dental hygiene has been a female‐dominated profession that worked primarily for dentists who, until very recently, were usually male. This article explores the early history of dental hygiene in Canada during the 1950s and 1960s; its explosive growth in the 1970s; the influence of feminism on the profession; and the battles dental hygienists fought to improve the status of their profession including better educational opportunities; professional …
Cigarette Nation
Reviewed by: Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930–1975 by Daniel J. Robinson Catherine Carstairs Robinson, Daniel J. – Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930–1975. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 352 p. At my high school in the 1980s, very few friends of mine smoked. The smokers were headbangers or preppies, not the International Baccalaureate (IB) students like me. I…
Sara Z. MacDonald, University Women
organizations and abstinence-only education might have been better illuminated with a chronological structure
Inventing the Thrifty Gene
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
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