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Mary Alice Peck, Mary Black, and Women’s Contributions to Occupational Therapy
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Mary Alice Peck, Mary Black, and Women’s Contributions to Occupational Therapy

Two names have repeatedly come up in the research for my Margaret Angus fellowship project about occupational therapy in Canada: Mary Alice Peck and Mary Black. While my previous blog posts have focused on major historical periods in the development of occupational therapy in Canada (the asylum reform movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the World Wars), this post focuses on these two influential women. Peck and Black were both significant figures in the development of occupational therapy in Canada, although they epitomize different aspects of women’s roles in the field.

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Dr. Simge Erdogan-O’Connor Honoured with Kingston Young Professionals 40 Under 40 Award
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Dr. Simge Erdogan-O’Connor Honoured with Kingston Young Professionals 40 Under 40 Award

The Kingston Economic Development Corporation has named Dr. Simge Erdogan-O’Connor as one of this year’s recipients of the Kingston Young Professionals 40 Under 40 Award. Dr. Simge Erdogan-O’Connor is the Director of the Museum of Health Care and has played a pivotal role in shaping Kingston’s cultural heritage sector since 2020.

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The Early Years of Occupational Therapy in Kingston
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The Early Years of Occupational Therapy in Kingston

The adoption of a therapeutic approach at the Kingston Asylum [had] proved a great success in the treatment of ‘chronic mental disease’ – using occupations in the form of work and craft to compliment routine treatment. This laid the groundwork for a new medical profession in Canada: occupational therapy.

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What Role Can Medical Museums Play in 2SLGBTQI+ Communities?
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What Role Can Medical Museums Play in 2SLGBTQI+ Communities?

As Dr. Ashley Waddington noted in her interview with us here, gender diversity and its expression cannot be limited to the medical practices we’ve come to group under gender affirming health care today. Historically, transgender, Two-Spirit, intersex and gender non-conforming or genderqueer people have existed independently of medical services like surgery or hormonal therapies.

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Part 2: Gender affirming care in Kingston: in conversation with Dr. Ashley Waddington
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Part 2: Gender affirming care in Kingston: in conversation with Dr. Ashley Waddington

To explore the topic of gender affirming care, we spoke to Dr. Ashley Waddington, an Associate Professor in the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen’s University. This is the second part of an interview with Dr. Waddington.

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