title: Don Bates: the medical historian as educator, activist, and historian of science.
abstract: The author outlines the academic and extra-academic career of Don Bates as a physician-historian, political activist, and creator of the interdisciplinary Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Weisz
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006663:Historiography; D006666:History of Medicine; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities / Q000266:history