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- ItemOpen AccessBedside and Community: 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary(University of Calgary Press, 2020-02) Mansell, Diana; Stahnisch, Frank; Larsson, PaulaBedside and Community is the inside story of fifty years of health care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on the first-person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty, and students along with archival research, and faculty histories, this collection celebrates the many significant contributions the University of Calgary has made to the health of Albertans. With contributions from the Cummings School of Medicine, the Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Environmental Design, Department of Psychology, and Indigenous Health Initiatives Bedside and Community is a truly collaborative history. Addressing the links between departments, the relationship between the university and the community, and evolving research and teaching methods, this book places the University of Calgary within a wider national context and shows how it has addressed the unique health needs of Southern Alberta. With a pioneering focus on primary care and commitment to interdisciplinary connections, the University of Calgary has made strides in health research, health education, and community outreach. Bedside and Community tells the story of a tradition of excellence that will light the way to future outreach and discovery.
- ItemOpen AccessCircular Progress: Health and Healthcare within Albertan Indian Residential Schools, 1920 - 1950(2015-10-20) Larsson, Paula; Stahnisch, FrankThis study provides a systematic analysis of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health of the pupils in Indian Residential Schools from 1920 – 1950. It focusses on a single province – Alberta – and utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to understand how the interaction between the biological and the psychosocial conditions of the schools contributed to both immediate and chronic health problems for Aboriginal students. Through an examination of nutrition, sanitation, disease, healthcare interventions, and mental health in the schools, it is seen that any “progress” the Department made in regards to the health of students was circular. Department officials used the inherent flaws in the system of school governance – which gave a few men ultimate power over the living conditions of thousands of children – to circumvent the responsibility they held towards the health of students. The ultimate result was a malnourished and vulnerable student population suffering from endemic disease and psychological trauma.
- ItemOpen Access‘Growing Pains’: An historical analysis of population mental health in Kitimat, British Columbia, 1950-2010(2013-09-23) Lucyk, Kelsey; Stahnisch, FrankThe relationship between economic change and mental health in resource-based communities has been largely unexplored. This historical case study examines how mental health was understood alongside changing economic circumstances in the resource-based community of Kitimat, British Columbia. A content analysis of archival documents and eight qualitative interviews with long-term residents revealed that understandings of mental health shifted according to local economic circumstances. Specifically, during times of economic growth the socially ideal family unit was seen as a way to achieve mental health. Conversely, during times of economic downturn residents were preoccupied with issues like housing or unemployment, which they identified as essential to their mental health. Overall, residents’ understandings of mental health aligned with holistic or biomedical perspectives, and sometimes both. Considering the recent state of economic development in Kitimat, and its inevitable downturn—common to other resource-based communities—this study offers important insight into the implications for mental health.
- ItemOpen AccessPathology as a Crime: Analysis of Dissection Protocols from Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, 1944-1945(2019-01-09) Tannenbaum, Jessica; Stahnisch, Frank; Timm, Annette; Stapleton, Timothy; Moore, Anne; Stam, HenderikusThe present thesis examines 161 dissection protocols that were produced in the Flossenbürg concentration camp between July 1944 and April 1945. After an introductory overview of the history of pathology and an outline of the history of the Flossenbürg camp, the study describes the protocols in regards to formal and qualitative criteria. The analysis scrutinizes the conclusions or so-called diagnoses of the dissectors at the end of each protocol from a forensic perspective. All prisoner deaths that occurred in the context of a concentration camp are considered criminal or unnatural, having occurred under obscure circumstances. The present study shows how the allegedly objective language of medicine and pathology often covers up medical crimes, such as missing treatment or prevention of infectious diseases, improper abdominal surgeries, starvation, polytrauma, executions, and neglect, instead of uncovering them. This confirms what former prisoners had testified to in the immediate postwar period. The thesis furthermore attempts to provide a more probable cause of death in three exemplary cases. Finally, it evaluates the scientific nature of the dissection protocols. It concludes that the Flossenbürg dissection protocols should be described as arbitrary experiments on humans (eigenmächtige Versuche am Menschen) but that they do not incorporate any necessary scientific criteria, nor were they created with truly scientific questions in mind. From the available historical evidence, the study concludes that the dissections were performed on deceased inmates to satisfy personal curiosity if not voyeurism stemming from a deeply misanthropic and criminal ideology of Germanic supremacy.
- ItemOpen AccessPsy-Knowledge and the Problem of ‘Pain Without Lesion’(2022-12-16) Knox, Erin; Ducey, Ariel; McLean, Scott; Stahnisch, FrankThis thesis examines the two most significant responses to the problem of pain without lesion by the Western psy-complex in the last 150 years. Through a close reading of disciplinary discourses, it specifically examines the differential techniques and vocabularies deployed by expert practitioners of psychoanalytic psychiatry (1895 – 1961) and cognitive psychology (1963 – 1995) in their efforts to render pain without lesion, a definitionally intangible and subjective phenomenon, into an identifiable, knowable, and workable entity. In doing so, I examine the way that the mind was brought into the question of pain by influential psychiatrists and psychologists: Freud, H.S. Sullivan, and Szasz in psychiatry, and Ellis, Beck, and M.J. Sullivan in cognitive psychology. In psychoanalytic psychiatry, pain without lesion was understood as a symptom of hysteria, which was caused by the unconscious conversion of emotional suffering into physical pain. The goal of psychoanalytic treatment was to increase patients’ self-knowledge and help them experience a broader range of emotions. Addressing chronic pain, cognitive psychology focussed instead on “pain cognitions,” peoples’ mental and emotive reactions to pain. The goal of their treatment was to teach patients how to monitor their thoughts so that they could identify and change cognitions that made pain worse. In this thesis, I consider the implication of these discourses in shaping the range of possible experience for those in pain, the assumptions they reveal about human nature and responsibility, and the degree to which they do and do not consider those in pain as socially positioned. I argue that the cognitive approach to pain without lesion is less equipped to consider aspects of the patient’s lifeworld that were once important in psychoanalytic considerations of pain, and that revisiting psychoanalytic ideas regarding the relationships between mind, pain, and the lifeworld may benefit contemporary pain researchers.
- ItemOpen Access“Within the Common People's Grasp”: Colombian Medical Publications and their Authors, 1821-1851(2017) Velez Mendoza, Rogelio Andres; Kiddle, Amelia; Stahnisch, Frank; Kraay, Hendrik; Stam, HenderikusThis thesis examines how university-educated physicians in Bogotá, Colombia made use of the printing press between 1821 and 1851, the first three decades after the country’s political independence from Spain. The first years of republican existence for the country brought challenges for the governing elite, which included public health issues such as disease epidemics and endemic conditions. This research examines the medical publications that were printed in the city starting in 1821 focusing on standalone publications such as books, booklets, and single-page proclamations. By analyzing the production of such publications, it aims at identifying the motivations and expectations of the physicians who wrote them. Furthermore, it describes how they understood the use of printed material in their goals as a group of professionals. This thesis demonstrates that physicians created a substantial corpus of medical publications and produced knowledge in a local setting using the printing press. In addition, university doctors expected to extend their practice and values down the social scale by opening new spaces to emphasize their importance to society at large. In order to reach the lower classes, medical authors resorted to a simpler writing style and relied on the help of cultural intermediaries, such as the clergy. Moreover, early nineteenth century physicians perpetuated previous colonial discourses around class and race to stake out their position in post-colonial settings. As a result, while acting as a conservative faction that did not escape the Spanish tradition, university-trained doctors were unable to curtail the influence of charlatans and empiric healers.
- ItemOpen AccessZentrales Nervensystem, Systema nervosum centrale, Gehirn, Encephalon, und Rueckenmark, Medulla ,spinalis(DeGruyter, 2003) Bechmann, Ingo; Nitsch, Robert; Pera, Fanz; Winkelmann, Andreas; Stahnisch, Frank