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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Last Updated: Feb. 4, 2011
  • Book: ‘The Middle Class Plague: Canada and the Polio Years, (University of Toronto Press, under revision after submission to UTP Manuscript Review Commitee)
  • Poster Exhibit: "Insulin in Toronto: Discovery, Development and Diabetes Control, 1921-23," The Diabetes Centre, Toronto General Hospital, Eaton Wing, 12th Floor, July 2008
  • Conference Essay: “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 (published by Ashgate, April 2008) view pdf file
  • Article/ Essay: "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
  • Research Report: co-author, "Back To The Future: Poliomyelitis. A Public Health Scenario Development Project," Public Health Agency of Canada, December 2007. This project investigates the question: What would it be like in Canada today if polio vaccines had not been developed?
  • Research Report: "'Couldn't Live Without It': Diabetes, the Costs of Innovation and the Price of Insulin in Canada, 1922-1984," January 19, 2007. Published in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 25 (2008): 407-31
  • Exhibit Handout: co-author with L. Barreto and R. Van Exan, "The Challenge of Whooping Cough: Canada's Role in the Development of Pertussis Vaccines," developed for Sanofi Pasteur Limited (Connaught Campus) Historical Exhibit, 2006 - view pdf file
  • Article: co-author with L. Barreto and R. Van Exan, "Polio Vaccine Develpment in Canada: Contributions to Global Polio Eradication," Biologicals 34 (2006): 91-101, originally presented at Polio Vaccine: The First 50 Years and Beyond, Toronto, June 2005 - pdf file
  • Book Review: of Marc Shell's Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), Journal of the History of Medicine 61 (2006): 232-34 - pdf file
  • Invited Lecture: “The Woman & the Method: Dr. Leone Farrell, Connaught Laboratories and the Control of Polio,” Celebrating Public Health: The Linch-pin of the Nation's Health, 10th Gold Lecture, Toronto Academy of Medicine, Toronto, November 28, 2005
  • Invited Lecture: “Pertussis and Combination Vaccines in Canada: A Century of Progress,” Connaught Retiree's Association, Sanofi Pasteur Limited, Toronto, November 15, 2005
  • Public Lecture: “Conquering the Crippler: Canada's Role in the Fight Against Polio,” Public Forum on Polio, Telus World of Science, Edmonton, August 20, 2005
  • Article: “The Canadian Polio Experience: A Personal Journey Through the Past,” Ars Medica Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2005): 60-73 - pdf file
  • Conference Presentation: co-author with L. Barreto, R. Van Exan, “Polio Vaccine Development in Canada: Contributions to Global Polio Eradication,” Polio Vaccines: The First 50 Years & Beyond, International Association of Biologicals Conference, Toronto, June 5, 2005
  • Invited Lecture: “The Story of Polio Vaccines: A Canadian Perspective,” 9th International Conference on Post-Polio Health, St. Louis, June 2005
  • Interview: 50th Anniversary of Salk Polio Vaccine, CHML Radio, Hamilton, ON, April 12, 2005
  • Interview: "Polio Remembered: The 20th Century Plague," Quirks & Quarks, CBC Radio, April 9, 2005. Listen via cbc.ca/quirks
  • Article: C.J. Rutty, L. Barreto, R. Van Exan, S. Gilchrist, "Conquering the Crippler: Canada and the Eradication of Polio," Canadian Journal of Public Health 93 (Mar-Apr 2005), special insert. Article available as a pdf file
  • Article: C.J. Rutty, "The Twentieth-Century Plague," The Beaver (Canada's History Magazine), April/May 2004. Article available as pdf file
  • Conference Presentation: "Canadian Science and the International Politics of Smallpox Vaccines, 1962-1980," Immunology from the Bench to the Bedside: Contexts of Immunology in Practice, University of Toronto, June 18, 2004 - full article version of presentation published 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)
  • Conference Presentation: "Ground Zero: Manitoba, Public Health and the Politics of Polio, 1953-1955," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 6, 2004.
  • Interview: Grosse Isle/ History of Public Health in Canada, "Body & Health," Global TV, December 19, 2003
  • Interview: SARS and Medical History, CBC Newsworld TV, Toronto, April 18, 2003
  • Invited Lecture: "Perplexing Polio: Canada and the 20th Century Plague," Presentation for Friday Hannah Chair Noon Lecture Series, “’New’ Diseases in History," University of Ottawa, February 28, 2003
  • Website Content: History of Poliomyelitis section of www.polio-vaccine.com (Aventis Pasteur (France)), 2002 - No longer on that website, but content adapted to HHRS site
  • Report: "From 'The Ward' to Discovery District: 101 College Street: At the Heart of Canada's Health Care Heritage," prepared for MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences) Discovery District, August 2002. Original report (pdf) | MaRS website version
  • Article: with Dr. Luis Barreto, "The Speckled Monster: Canada, Smallpox and its Eradication," Canadian Journal of Public Health 93 (July-Aug 2002): I-1 - I-20 - pdf file
  • Panel Guest: on TalkTV, August 13, 2001 "The Chat Room: The Watercooler"
  • Book Review: of Lesley Marus Barsky, From Generation to Generation: A History of Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998) in "Letters in Canada" University of Toronto Quarterly 70(1) (Winter 2000/2001): 517
  • Science Textbook Articles: "Global Heroes: Banting and Best Discover Insulin," "Bioinformatics," "Pioneer Cytogeneticist," "Immunlogist," in Don Galbraith (et al.), Biology 11 (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2001)
  • Conference Paper: "'The Middle Class Plague:' Canada & The Polio Years," 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October 26-29, 2000
  • Presentation: "Health Heritage Research Services: Medical History in Private Practice: Redefining the Interface Between Academics & Business," University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies: Life After Graduation Workshop, June 7, 2000
  • Conference Paper: "I'd Rather Burn Out than Rust Out:" James Young Ferguson, Hospital Building and Missionary Medicine in Formosa, 1905-1922," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 27, 2000
  • Colloquium:  "Personality, Politics & Canadian Public Health: The Origins of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, 1888-1917," Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology Colloquium Series, January 26, 2000 - Now published in 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
  • Conference Paper: "Health Heritage Research Services: Medical History in Private Practice: Redefining the Interface Between Academics & Business," AMS/Hannah Conference: Canadian Medical History at the MIllenium: Past Accomplishments, Future Directions, in Honour of Dr. Charles G. Roland, November 5-6, 1999.
  • Book: A Circle of Care: St. Mary's General Hospital: 75 Years of Caring (Kitchener, St. Mary's General Hospital, 1999) - view Chapter 1 as pdf file
  • Conference Paper:  "Birth of a Mission: The Origins of St. Mary's General Hospital, Kitchener, 1916-1924," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Ottawa, May 30, 1998 
  • Invited Lecture:  "The Middle Class Plague: The Great Toronto Polio Epidemic of 1937," Toronto's Medical History lecture series, Heritage Toronto, May 14, 1998
  • Guest:  Re. "The Middle Class Plague: The Great Toronto Polio Epidemic of 1937," "Metro Morning," CBC Radio One, Toronto, May 12, 1998 
  • Conference Paper:  "The Grim Terror! The History of Polio in Canada," '97 International Post Polio Conference, Calgary, AB, September 28 - October 2, 1997
  • Invited Lecture:  "Birth of a Hospital: Father Albert Zinger and the Origins of St Mary's General Hospital, 1916-1924," presented to St Mary's General Hospital Volunteers Association, Kitchener, ON, September 23, 1997
  • Article: "Robert Davies Defries (1889-1975)" in L.N. Magner (ed.), Doctors, Nurses and Practitioners (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997), p. 62-69
  • Article: "The Middle Class Plague: Epidemic Polio and the Canadian State, 1936-1937," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 13 (2) (1996): 277-314 - pdf version of article also available
  • Article: "Made in Canada: Connaught and World Health," Conntact (Employee News of Pasteur Mérieux Connaught Canada) (March 1997)
  • Invited Lecture: "Politics, Public Pressure and Public Health: The Ethics of Polio Vaccines," Medical Ethics in History Seminar Series, Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, March 14, 1997 
  • Article: "Connaught and the History of Modern Pertussis Vaccines," Conntact (Nov 1996) - pdf file 
  • Article: "Miracle Blood Lubricant: Connaught and the Story of Heparin, 1928-1937," Conntact (Aug 1996)
  • Article: "Connaught and the Canadian Polio Story," Conntact (June 1996)
  • Conference Paper: "From Salk to Sabin: Field 'Demonstrations' and the Canadian Introduction of the Sabin Polio Vaccine, 1958-1952," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, St. Catherines, May 31, 1996
  • Conference Paper:  "Connaught Laboratories, Veterinary Medicine and Public Health: A Brief Overview of an Intimate History," Panel Discussion, "An Introduction to Animal Medicine's Role in the History of Human Health," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, St. Catherine's, ON, June 2, 1996
  • Conference Paper: "Salk vs Sabin: The Great Polio Vaccine Debate: Legal Liability, Informed Consent and Amercan Public Health Policy, 1955-1995," Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, May 11, 1996 
  • Article: "Pasteur Mérieux Connaught: Our Shared Heritage," Conntact (April 1996) - view pdf file
  • Article: "Connaught and the Defeat of Diphtheria," Conntact (Feb. 1996) 
  • Article: "Sifting Proteins: Connaught and the Discovery of Starch-Gel Electrophoresis," Conntact (Dec 1995) - view pdf file
  • Article: "Dr. Robert D. Defries (1889-1975): Canada's 'Mr. Public Health,'" Conntact (Oct 1995 - view pdf file
  • Keynote Addresses: "'The Grim Terror!' Canada, The March of Dimes, and the Control of Polio," Easter Seals/ March of Dimes National Council Annual Meeting, Toronto, January 13, 1996; Ontario March of Dimes Annual General Meeting, Toronto, September 23, 1995
  • Invited Lecture: "Polio and its Echoes: Historical Perspectives on a Continuing Challenge," St. Peter's Hospital, Hamilton, ON, May 26, 1995
  • Conference Paper: "'The March Across the Border:' The Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis and the Politics of the March of Dimes, 1945-1951," paper presented, Annual Meeting American Association for the History of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1995
  • Guest: "Morningside," April 12, 1995, CBC Radio, polio history
  • Article: "40 Years of Polio Prevention!: Canada and the Great Salk Vaccine Trial of 1954-55,"Abilities #19 (Summer 1994): 26, 28
  • Article: "'Helpless:' The 1951 Ontario Polio Outbreak - The Neil Young Case" in A. Jenkins (ed.), Neil Young and Broken Arrow: On a Journey Through the Past (Mid Glamorgan, Wales: Neil Young Appreciation Society, 1994), p. 95-112
  • Invited Lecture: "The Canadian Connection: Polio Epidemics, Connaught Laboratories and the Salk Vaccine, 1927-1955," McMaster University, Hamilton, Nov. 1993
  • Conference Papers: "The Canadian Connection: Poliomyelitis Research, Connaught Laboratories and the Salk Vaccine, 1947-1955," Annual Meetings: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Ottawa, June 1993; American Association for the History of Medicine, Louisville, KY, May 1993
  • Book Review: of Heather MacDougall, Activists and Advocates: Toronto's Health Department, 1883-1983 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990) in Scientia Canadensis 16 (1992): 109-12
  • Conference Paper: "Poliomyelitis, Physicians and the Popular Press in the Pre-Salk Era: The 1937 Toronto Epidemic," "7th Kingston Conference," Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, Ottawa, Oct. 1991
  • Conference Paper: "Poliomyelitis, Physicians and the Popular Press in Early 20th-Century Ontario," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Kingston, May 1991
  • Article: “The Lessons of History: Epidemics, Pandemics and AIDS,” Pugwash Papers, 2 (4) (1989): 12-13, 31, Proceedings of the 5th National Conference of Canadian Student Pugwash, Ottawa, June 1989
  • Article: “Helpless: The 1951 Ontario Polio Outbreak - The Neil Young Case,” The Mirror (University of Western Ontario Student History Journal), 9 (1989): 82-109 - view pdf file. Also view original undergraduate essay as a pdf file, complete with Professor J.T. H. Connor's comments & mark) (Note that quality of original essay printout from April 1988 resulted in a less than optimum pdf conversion, although it is readable).