Movies:

  • “The C Word”
    • Can be found on Netflix
    • This movie is very interesting, informative, and quite sad. It puts the topic of “Cancer” into perspective and highlights some main issues with health that links to cancer. In some areas of the movie it can be debatable and make you think of what is health and what it is to be healthy.
  • “Future Baby”
    • Can be found on Netflix
    • This movie looks at babies and the making and development of babies. It looks at both gender and health in many aspects, and is interesting and eye opening.
  • “Orgasm Inc.”
    • Can be found on DVD
    • This movie was interesting and informative in different aspects of gender and health.
  • “Growing Up Canadian- Health”
    • Can be found on the NFB website- NFB film
    • This movie looked at many topics in Canada’s health history. It discussed different illnesses, ways to be healthy, etc. It gave a lot of information on the history of health in Canada and is a very useful movie to watch.

Website Links:

  • “CMAJ article links hunger in residential schools to Type 2 diabetes, obesity”
    • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/residential-school-hunger-disease-1.4244432
    • This article discusses the food and hunger issues of the attendees of residential schools in the past and how this many connect with further health issues survivors are facing today. This article explores some important topics in the health history of the Indigenous population.
  • “‘Our people were experimented on’: Indigenous sanatorium survivors recall medical tests”
    • http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/indigenous-sanatorium-suvivors-medical-experiments-1.4301131
    • This article looks at the experimentation on possibly sick Indigenous people, and how this greatly effected them. This article has some important information that relates to Indigenous health and health in Canada.
  • “Notches Blog”
    • http://notchesblog.com/
    • This blog looks at many aspects of gender and health in Canadian history, and a lot of these topics that are discussed are important to known to get a better understanding of gender and health in history.
  • “Remedia- The History of Medicine in Dialogue with its Present”
    • https://remedianetwork.net/
    • This blog/ePortfolio looks at many topics in the history of Gender and Health. All these topics are important to know and understand to get a better grasp of gender and health in Canadian history.
  • “Canada and the First World War- Nurses”
    • https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/people/in-uniform/nurses/
    • This blog gives a lot of useful information about female nurse in WW1, such as ho they were and that they did for Canada’s troops. This blog both gives some information on the topic I chose for my research paper, but also for any one interested in WW1 nurses.
  • “The Nursing Sisters of Canada”
    • http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/women-and-war/nursing-sisters
    • This website gives information on the nursing sisters of WW1, and it also has some primary documents from this time era. It is both useful and interesting information to read.
  • “World War One: The many battles faced by WW1’s nurses”
    • http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26838077
    • This website gives some interesting information about WW1 nurse and what they did and had to face while helping in WW1. This website gives eye opening information about these nurses in this time.
  • “All about Canadian History: Canada’s WW1 Nursing Sisters”
    • https://cdnhistorybits.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/canadian-ww1-nurses/
    • This ePortfolio gives some brief information about nurses in WW1. It gives some useful and informative information about this topic.
  • “Nursing and Medicine During World War I”
    • https://ceufast.com/blog/nursing-and-medicine-during-world-war-i
    • This blog gives some brief information and primary documents about nurses and medicine in WW1. This blog has some useful information about this topic on it.