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Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Ed. Gerald Hallowell. Toronto: Oxford UP. 2004.
(Pratt Reference: F1006 .O9 2004; Electronic Copy available via Oxford Reference Online)
-"Public Health" by Heather MacDougall
-"Cholera" by Jacalyn Duffin
The New Cambridge Modern History. 14 vols. Gen.Ed. John Peter Charles Roach. 1957-1979. 1st ed.
(Pratt Reference: D208 .N4; Electronic Copy of 2nd ed. available via Cambridge Histories Online)
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Eds. W.F.Bynum and Roy Porter. 2 vols. London: Routledge. 1993. (Pratt Reference: R133 .C64 1993)
-Vol. 1: "Medical Care" by Guenter B. Risse; "Arab-Islamic Medicine" by Lawrence I. Conrad
-Vol. 2: "The Hospital" by Lindsay Granshaw
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