title: How much gin in the tonic? The problems of writing a provincial medical history,.
abstract: This paper describes the problems and resources involved in writing a Canadian provincial medical history, (Manitoba Medicine: A Brief History). The first decision was whether it should be a scholarly or a popular history; The authors' background, and the realities of publishing dictated the latter. Resources available were local and easily accessible: archives and records, the Manitoba medical journals, a series of local medical journals (almost continuous for a century), and the Manitoba medical biographies, books variable in length, and content, but relating to a wide variety of physicians. Such a paper leads to a question- "Is local history merely trivial?" The answer to such a question is "no."
authors.affiliation: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Beamish
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006663:Historiography; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century