Delia Gavrus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5825574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delia Gavrus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gavrus |
| SIGNATURE | GAVRUS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wilder Penfield dreams of the Nobel Prize
This essay investigates the relationship the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield had, in old age, with honours and accolades, including the Nobel Prize. Documents from the Nobel Prize Archives shed light on his nominations and on the assessments the Committee took into consideration, illuminating the professional networks the nomination process activated and the values underwriting the adjudication process. Meanwhile, Penfield's correspondence …
Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education by Rachel Prentice (review)
Reviewed by: Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education by Rachel Prentice Delia Gavrus Rachel Prentice. Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi + 295 pp. $24.95 (978-0-8223-5157-3). Over the past few decades, an analytic focus on the body and on embodiment has produced exciting scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. For historians, s…
Men of Dreams and Men of Action: Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, and the Performance of Professional Identity, 1920-1950
In the 1930s and 1940s, neurosurgeons and clinical neurologists engaged in a fierce exchange on the scope of their specialties. Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield's rhetoric of therapeutic superiority had a strong impact both on the Rockefeller Foundation's support for his institute and on the self-fashioning of neurologists. Neurologists articulated their identity in spirited performances at the meetings of specialist societies, their response shiftin…
Envisioning Cyclopropane: Scientific Product or Medical Technology
In the late 1920s, V.E. Henderson and his team at the University of Toronto discovered the anaesthetic properties of cyclopropane. For a number of reasons, Henderson did not envision cyclopropane as a useful technology: to him it was simply a gas that possessed anaesthetic properties, rather than a potential clinical product, and this explains why cyclopropane was not first introduced into Toronto hospitals. In contrast, the practicing anaesthesi…
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Men of Dreams and Men of Action: Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, and the Performance of Professional Identity, 1920-1950
In the 1930s and 1940s, neurosurgeons and clinical neurologists engaged in a fierce exchange on the scope of their specialties. Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield's rhetoric of therapeutic superiority had a strong impact both on the Rockefeller Foundation's support for his institute and on the self-fashioning of neurologists. Neurologists articulated their identity in spirited performances at the meetings of specialist societies, their response shiftin…
Envisioning Cyclopropane: Scientific Product or Medical Technology
In the late 1920s, V.E. Henderson and his team at the University of Toronto discovered the anaesthetic properties of cyclopropane. For a number of reasons, Henderson did not envision cyclopropane as a useful technology: to him it was simply a gas that possessed anaesthetic properties, rather than a potential clinical product, and this explains why cyclopropane was not first introduced into Toronto hospitals. In contrast, the practicing anaesthesi…
Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education by Rachel Prentice (review)
Reviewed by: Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education by Rachel Prentice Delia Gavrus Rachel Prentice. Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi + 295 pp. $24.95 (978-0-8223-5157-3). Over the past few decades, an analytic focus on the body and on embodiment has produced exciting scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. For historians, s…
Wilder Penfield dreams of the Nobel Prize
This essay investigates the relationship the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield had, in old age, with honours and accolades, including the Nobel Prize. Documents from the Nobel Prize Archives shed light on his nominations and on the assessments the Committee took into consideration, illuminating the professional networks the nomination process activated and the values underwriting the adjudication process. Meanwhile, Penfield's correspondence …
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