Research & Collections

Please note: The deadline has passed for 2010.

2010 Research Fellowship Event Notice:
October 21, 2010 -  “Torture or Treatment: Electroconvulsive Therapy” Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening Presentation: 
Among the many non-pharmacological techniques that have been used in psychiatry throughout history, electroconvulsive therapy has raised the most controversy and debate. 2010 Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellow Sarah Xiao's presentation will discuss the historical perspective of shock therapy, examine the uses and efficacy of ECT (particularly in the last 60 years), and consider how the medical profession envisions its use in the future. Presentation will be held at the Glaxo Wellcome Clinical Education Centre (Louise D. Acton Building, 31 George St., Queen's University) at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 21, 2010.

 Each year the Margaret Angus Research Fellow is selected by the Museum from a pool of qualified applicants. The appointed Fellow spends the duration of the six-month program researching and preparing a manuscript reflecting the history of health and health care as expressed by components of the Museum's collection. Each year, usually in October, the paper is presented by the fellow to an audience at the Museum, to the delight of the public and professionals alike.

View topics of current interest to the museum.
View fellowship criteria.

The manuscripts produced are available as research resources in the Museum. Below are the former research fellows and their projects.

2009 Leanne Shapton "From Laboratory Instrument to Powerful Diagnostic Tool: The Impact of the Electrocardiogram on the Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Disease, 1900-1970.
View the abstract for this manuscript
Click here to view the Research Fellowing Evening Presentation.

2008 Andrea Melvin "Badges of Honour or Devices of Control?: Uniforms at Kingston General Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1930-1970". View the abstract for this manuscript
Click here to view the Research Fellowing Evening Presentation.

2007 Andrea Terry "The Malleability of Wax and Meaning: Marjorie Winslow and Twentieth-Century Moulage Production in Canada." View our Cabinet of Curiosities exhibit on moulage, visit the exhibit on moulage in the museum, and view the abstract for this manuscript.

2006 Jennifer Lem "Dr. John G. Fitzgerald: Canada's Public Health Care Visionary."

2005 Christopher Webb "Protecting our Privates; Military Health Education and the VD Epidemic" - View the abstract for this manuscript.

2004 Jennifer Walker "'A Blessing to the Neighbourhood at Large': Dr. Kenneth Fenwick and late 19th-Century Surgery." Take our guided tour The Astonishing Past of KGH and see the late-Victorian operating amphitheatre that Fenwick pushed for and in which he received his fatal infection!

2003 Phaedra Livingstone "Snake Oil and Mothers' Milk: The representation of woman in Victorian patent medicine advertising trade cards" - View the abstract for this manuscript; view our online exhibit on trade cards.

2001 Viviane Paquin "Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine". Visit our related online exhibit  the Healing Power of Plants.

2000 David Kasserra "The History of the No.7 Canadian General Hospital"

1999 Daniel Sipes "The History of Prosthetic Joint Replacement". Visit the related gallery in the museum, or our online exhibit Joint Replacement

1998 Daniel Sipes "Development of the Cardiopulmonary By-Pass Machine". View a summary of our past exhibit on this topic.

1997 Elaine Berman "Beyond Ether - 150 Years of Anaesthesia". Come for a tour in the KGH Hall of Honour that includes the related exhibit. 

Click here to view an index of the presentations we have videotaped