The Seminar represents the Community-based projects (CBP's) component of the Global Health curriculum for the second term of first year medicine.

Some papers have been selected for peer-reviewed meetings, especially the U Calgary History of Medicine Days events usually held in March (contact Marnie Cudmore <cudmore@ucalgary.ca>). A few have actually been published in the CMAJ and Queen's Health Sciences Journal.

For more information about how it "works" click here.

Projects in the past have included:

• Did the GP ever spare the Emerg?
• How did Kingstonians greet X-ray machines?
• History of Circumcision
• The history of student-run clinics
• Syphilis and Vampire Literature
• Health of Prisoners in Kingston Penitentiary
• Milk -- Friend or Foe
• History of Sports Medicine
• History of Harm Reduction and Street Health
• Changing Voices in the Autopathography of HIV/AIDS
• Art therapy in Kingston
• Tuskegee and the history of medical ethics
• Public health in ancient Rome
• The founding of the CNIB in Kingston
• Disease and discrimination
• Medicalization of sexuality
• WHO goals or politics and public policy
• Social aspects of infectious diseases
• Perceptions of risk concepts: a survey
• A history of medical errors
• Oral polio vaccine and the origin of AIDS
• High altitude medicine
• Imagery of medicine in editorial cartoons (doctor and nurse strikes)
• Breast cancer movement
• Female genital mutilation
• HRT
• Execution by electrocution
• Eugenics then and now: a look at representative societal influences
• Molecular biology an cancer screening: has a new era of primary prevention begun
• Music therapy--Kingston's role in creating a profession
• Cultural influences on cranial deformation in infants (plagiocephaly)
• History of hemorrhoids
• Kuru: epidemiological and cultural considerations
• The road to eradication: smallpox inoculation in 18th century England
• Premenstrual syndrome: a historical perspective
• Medical history of contraception
• The "advent" of midwives
• The plague of Athens in the 5th century BC
• Malaria past and present
• The Salem witch trials: an example of mass hysteria?
• Sick building syndrome: a "new" disease?
• The dancing mania: Tarantism and the idea of mass hysteria
• The folk lore of werewolves: a relationship with porphyria?
• The royal touch: an episode in the history of tuberculosis
• The Spanish flu of 1918 in Kingston
• The decline (and rise) of tuberculosis
• The Black Death of 14th century Europe
• The impact of the Black Death on art
• Multiple personality disorder: the historical construction of a disease
• The history and epidemiology of anorexia nervosa
• Beethoven's deafness: the epidemiology of deafness in the early 19th century
• The medical consequences of the atomic explosions of 1945
• The history and epidemiology of hemophilia
• The history of AIDS: a "new" disease?
• The recent history of hospital cutbacks
• How do we define what is "sick": a history of disease concept

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