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Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D Medical Historian - Health Heritage Consultant www.healthheritageresearch.com | hhrs@healthheritageresearch.com HISTORICAL RESEARCH & WRITING |
| NEW! The History of Polio - Comprehensive text with image gallery covering the international story of polio epidemics, the development of both vaccines, the global polio eradication initiative and the challenge of post-polio syndrome - View feature here
NEW! For more visit the restructured Polio History pages here |
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NEW! C.J. Rutty, “Canadian Vaccine Research, Production and International Regulation: Connaught Laboratories and Smallpox Vaccines, 1962-1980,” (originally presented at ‘Immunology at the Bench and Bedside,’ conference, Toronto, June 17, 2004) in Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar (eds.) Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology (to be published by Ashgate, April 2008)
See also: L. Barreto and C.J. Rutty, "The Speckled Monster: Canada, Smallpox and its Eradication," Canadian Journal of Public Health 93 (July-Aug 2002): Special Insert I-1 - I-20 - pdf file available |
| "Remembering Polio" - CBC Radio One "Ideas" documentary - To be re-broadcast on April 3 & 10, 2008 - originally broadcast on June 18 & 25, 2007 - More info here |  |
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NEW! Just Published! Harry Black, "Leone Farrell: Research Scientist: Mass Production of Polio Vaccine," in his Canadian Scientists and Inventors: Biographies of people who shaped our world (2nd Edition) (Markham: Pembroke Publishing, 2008), pp. 59-65 - More details here
More on Dr. Leone Farrell available here |
| NEW! C.J. Rutty, "Personality, Politics and Public Health: The Origins of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, 1888-1917," in E.A. Heaman, Alison Li, Shelley McKellar (eds.) Figuring the Social: Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 273-303 - More Info at U of T Press & Chapters-Indigo
Additional features related to the history of Connaught Laboratories: Dr. Robert D. Defries | PMC: A Shared Heritage | Dr. Oliver Smithies & Starch-Gel Electrophoresis | Heparin | Diphtheria Toxoid | Polio |
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L. Barreto, R. Van Exan & C.J. Rutty, "The Challenge of Whooping Cough: Canada's Role in the Development of Pertussis Vaccines," historical exhibit produced for Sanofi Pasteur Limited (Connaught Campus), April - December 2006 - View the Exhibit Brochure & Highlights of Travelling Exhibit |
