MUSEUM BLOG
Teddy Bear Hospital Event Returns for Family Day 2025
On Monday, February 17th from 9-4pm, the Museum of Health Care will host its annual Teddy Bear Hospital Event.
Just a Gut Feeling: Eating and Emotions Across Time
All of this is to say that people’s relationships with food, feelings, and health have always been complicated. Although there’s no longer a full roster of doctors ready to get you on a diet to balance out your humours and suppress your urges, there’s still a lot of discussion around eating and emotions. “Hangrieness,” for example, is no joke.
Selling Sex: HRT and Knowledge Transmission in 1940s Ontario
Today, I’ll be showing you a bit more about how HRT became a part of Canadian doctors’ work in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, and Chlorpromazine: The ABCs of the History of Psychopharmacology
The story of mental health treatment in North America is a fascinating one. In many ways, the field of psychiatry has had a harder time advancing at the same pace as other medical fields due to the absence of obvious, external markers of disease. In fact, even today, we struggle to define and identify psychiatric illnesses and develop reliable, safe, and effective methods to treat them.
The Public Life of Hormones: HRT in Ontarian Communities
My project for this summer’s Margaret Angus Research Fellowship will try to unearth some of this history, looking at hormones’ incorporation into physicians’ education, hospitals, and peoples’ daily lives. By investigating the education of physicians at Queen’s medical school, records of their practice and training, news sources like the ones considered here, and 2SLGBTQI+ community records and ephemera, I will be looking into the local history of HRT in Kingston and Ontario more generally.
Now hiring! Programming & Communications Coordinator
The Museum of Health Care at Kingston is currently seeking a Programming & Communications Coordinator. Under the direction of the Museum Director, this position has the overall responsibility of maintaining and advancing the programming, communications efforts, and digital content offerings of the Museum.
