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Michael Bliss Fonds
Fonds
200 cm of textual records and 10 diskettes.
Michael Bliss entered University College at University of Toronto in 1958, receiving his BA, MA and PhD from the University before joining the Faculty of Arts & Science in the department of history as a professor. He later moved to U of T’s Faculty of Medicine. He was awarded University Professor, was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He was made a Member of The Order of Canada in 1998 and was promoted to Officer in 2013.
He wrote several prize-winning books in Canadian and medical history. His list of publications includes: The Discovery of Insulin (1982), Frederick Banting: A Biography (1984), William Osler: A Life in Medicine (1999) and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery (2005). He authored 14 books on business, politics and medicine. He wrote the Governor General’s Award–nominated Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal (1991). Bliss also wrote business books, including A Canadian Millionaire: the Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle (1978), and a first history of business in Canada, Northern Enterprise (1987).
The fonds was donated by the author
The fonds contains the manuscript of his book William Osler : A Life in Medicine.
The documents are in English
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