When Ronald Melzack first published a paper detailing the gate control theory of pain he had formulated with MIT collaborator Patrick Wall, it seemed unlikely that it would be embraced as one of...
By the time Hugh MacLennan joined Â鶹AV's faculty as a part-time English professor in 1951, he had already been honoured with three Governor General's awards, Canada's highest literary prize. When...
Though not a doctor herself, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock is having a profound effect on the practice of medicine. Lock, the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in the Social Studies in Medicine...
Translated into 321 languages and dialects, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is quite probably the most cited legal document ever drafted by a Canadian. In 1946, John Humphrey, then a...
Like many driven young men, Thomas Chang would bring his work home with him. The difference with Chang was his "work" was that the near-impossible task of creating the world's first artificial...