A Working Bibliography of Public Health in the City of Hamilton by Theme

A Working Bibliography of Public Health in Hamilton by Theme

• General Histories

  • Bailey, Thomas, Hamilton, Chronicle of a City, Burlington, Ont.: Windsor Publications, 1983.
  • Campbell, A Mountain and a City: The Story of Hamilton, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
  • Evans, Lois C., Hamilton: The Story of a City, Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970.
  • Freeman, Bill, Hamilton: A People’s History, Toronto: J. Lorimer, 2001.
  • Henley, Brian, Hamilton 1889–1890: ‘From the Light-Lit Bay to the Lordly Hill,’ Hamilton, Ont.: Our Heritage Publications, 1989.
  • Houghton, Margaret, The Hamiltonians: 100 Fascinating Lives, Toronto: J. Lorimer, 2003.
  • Weaver, John, Hamilton: An Illustrated History, Toronto: Lorimer and National Museum of Man, 1982.
  • Weaver, John, Shaping the Canadian City: Essays on Urban Politics and Policy, 1890–1920, Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 1977.
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• Children’s Health

  • Garlie, Norman Todd, “Stature, Mass, and Body Mass Index of Canadian Children,” Open-access manuscript, 2000. [PhD thesis]
  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Surviving the Early Years: Childhood Diseases in Hamilton at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2008.
  • Janjua, Martyna, “Infant Mortality during the Great Depression in Hamilton, Ontario (1925–35): Trends, Causes, and Implications,” Open-access manuscript, 2009. [MA thesis]
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• Cholera

  • Bilson, Geoffrey, A Darkened House: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
  • Godfrey, Charles M., The Cholera Epidemics in Upper Canada, 1832–1866, Toronto: Seacombe House, 1968.
  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Cholera: Hamilton’s Forgotten Epidemics, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, 2012.
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• Crime

  • Ayre, John D., Felons of Hamilton, Haldimand and Brant, 1828–1953, Simcoe, Ont.: J. D. Ayre, 2000.
  • Dunn, J. R., van der Meulen, E., O’Campo, P., & Muntaner, C., “Improving Health Equity Through Theory-Informed Evaluations: A Look at Housing-First Strategies, Cross-Sectoral Health Programs, and Prostitution Policy,”Evaluation and Program Planning No. 36, Vol. 1 (2013), 184–190.
  • Freeman, Bill, and Hewitt, Marsha, eds., Their Town: The Mafia, the Media, and the Party Machine, Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1979.
  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Damage Control: The Untold Story of Venereal Disease in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.: Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 2014.
  • Humphreys, Adrian, The Enforcer: Johnny Pops Papalia: A Life and Death in the Mafia, Toronto: Harper Collins, 1999.
  • Weaver, John, Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816–1970, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
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• Electricity & Waterworks

  • Fountain Foundation, Downtown Hamilton: The Heart of It All, Hamilton, Ont.: The Fountain Foundation, 1995.
  • James, William, and James, Evelyn, ‘A Sufficient Quantity of Pure and Wholesome Water:’ The Story of Hamilton’s Old Pumphouse, London, Ont.: Phelps Publishing Company, 1978.
  • Redfern, D. B., “Design of the Hamilton, Ontario Sewer System and Treatment Works,” Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation) Vol. 34, No. 10 (Oct., 1962), 1052–1069.
  • Vincent, Ian, Hamilton: The Electric City of Canada, Toronto: Ian Vincent, 1974.
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• Environment and the Harbour

  • Ali, Harris, “Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City,” Social Problems Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 2002), 129–149.
  • Asanin, Dean Jennifer, “Local Environmental Determinants of Adolescent Body Weight on Low-Socioeconomic Status Neighbourhoods in Ontario, Canada,” Open-access manuscript, 2012. [PhD thesis]
  • Cruikshank, Ken and Bouchier, Nancy, “Blighted Areas and Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality on an Industrial Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, 1890–1960,” Environmental History 9 (2004), 464–496.
  • Cruikshank, Ken and Bouchier, Nancy, “ ‘Dirty Spaces:’ Environment, the State, and Recreational Swimming in Hamilton Harbour, 1870–1946,” Sport History Review 29 (1998), 59–76.
  • Cruikshank, Ken and Bouchier, Nancy, “‘The Heritage of the People Closed Against Them:’ Class, Environment, and the Reshaping of a Summer Playground for Hamilton, the Burlington Beach, 1870s–1980s,” Urban History Review 30 (2001), 40–55.
  • Cruikshank, Ken and Bouchier, Nancy, “‘Sportsmen and Pothunters:’ Class, Conservation, and the Fishery of Hamilton Harbour, 1850–1914,” Sport History Review 28 (1997), 1–18.
  • Cruikshank, Ken and Nancy Bouchier, The People and the Bay: A Popular History of Hamilton Harbour Hamilton, Ont.: Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Center, 1997.
  • Diener, Alan, “Valuing Health and Air Quality Using Stated Preference Methods,” Open-access manuscript, 1999. [PhD thesis]
  • Jama, Sophie, “Towards an Understanding of Neighbourhood and Individual Level Barriers to Lifestyle Change in Hamilton, Ontario,” Open-access manuscript, 2004. [MA thesis]
  • Sandberg, L. Anders, Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, 2013.
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• Fire

  • Ali, Harris, “Disaster and the Political Economy of Recycling: Toxic Fire in an Industrial City,” Social Problems Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 2002), 129–149.
  • Verbeek, John, Hamilton Fire Department: A Historical Look Back, 3^rd edition, John Verbeek, 2014.
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• Food & Nutrition

  • Latham, Jim, “Determinants and Public Health Effects of Food Cost and Availability in Two Neighbourhoods of Hamilton, Ontario,” Open-access manuscript, 2004. [MA thesis]
  • Moffatt, T., Galloway, T., and Latham, J., “Stature and Adiposity Among Children in Contrasting Neighbourhoods in the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,” American Journal of Human Biology 17 (2005), 355–367.
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• Infectious Diseases & Epidemics, Other

  • Battles, Heather T., “Examining Mortality Patterns in the Epidemic Emergence of Poliomyelitis in Southern Ontario, Canada (1900–1937),” Open-access manuscript, 2013. [PhD thesis]
  • Gagan, Rosemary R., “Disease, Mortality, and Public Health, Hamilton, Ontario, 1900–1914,” Ph.D. Dissertation, McMaster University, 1981.
  • Gagan, Rosemary R., “Disease, Mortality, and Public Health, Hamilton, Ontario, 1900–1914,” Urban Historical Review Vol. 17 (1989), pp. 161–175.
  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Surviving the Early Years: Childhood Diseases in Hamilton at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2008.
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• Influenza

  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Anatomy of a Pandemic: The 1918 Influenza in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.: Allegra Print and Imaging, 2005.
  • Herring, Ann D., “‘There Were Young People and Old People and Babies Dying Every Week:’ The 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic at Norway House,” Ethnohistory Vol 1., No. 1 (1994), pp. 73–105.
  • Herring, Ann D., and Carraher, Sally, eds., Miasma to Microscopes: The Russian Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.: Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 2011.
  • Herring, Ann D., and Carraher, Sally, eds., Recurrence and Resilience: The Third Wave of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.: Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 2010.
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• Hospitals

  • Zeidler, Eberhard, Healing the Hospital: McMaster Health Sciences Centre, Its Conception and Evolution, Zeidler Partnership, 1974.
  • Hamilton Mountain Heritage Society, Mountain Memories: A Pictorial History of Hamilton Mountain, History Ontario Hamilton, 2000.
  • Burkholder, Mabel, Barton on the Mountain, Mabel Burkholder, 1956.
  • McMaster University Health Sciences Library, “History of Hamilton Hospitals.”
  • McGregor Clinic, McGregor Clinic Bulletin: Fortieth Anniversary Edition, Ambrose McGhie Clinic, 1962.
  • Spaulding, William, Revitalizing Medical Education: McMaster Medical School, The Early Years, 1965–1974, Hamilton, Ont.: B.C. Decker, 1991.
  • St. Joseph’s Hospital, History of St. Joseph’s Hospital and School of Nursing, Hamilton, Ont., 1950.
  • Wells, Kenneth E., Highlights in the Story of Preventive Medicine in Hamilton, Ontario, 1778–1968, Hamilton, Ont.: Hamilton-Wentworth District Health Unit, 1970.
  • Williamson, Robert, ed., Chedoke: More Than A Sanatorium, Hamilton Health Sciences, 2006.
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• Housing

  • Beck, Andrew, “A Qualitative Analysis of Social Housing Residents,” Open-access manuscript, 2004. [MA thesis]
  • Bouchier, Nancy, and Cruikshank, Ken, “‘The War on the Squatters:’ Hamilton’s Boathouse Community and the Re-Creation of Recreation on Burlington Bay, 1920–1940,” Labour / Le Travail 51 (2003), 9–46.
  • Doucet, Michael J., and Weaver, John C., Housing the North American City, Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
  • Dunn, J. R., van der Meulen, E., O’Campo, P., & Muntaner, C., “Improving Health Equity Through Theory-Informed Evaluations: A Look at Housing-First Strategies, Cross-Sectoral Health Programs, and Prostitution Policy,”Evaluation and Program Planning No. 36, Vol. 1 (2013), 184–190.
  • Harris, R., Dunn, J. R., & Wakefield, S., “A City on the Cusp: Neighbourhood Change in Hamilton,” Hamilton, Ontario: Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, 2015.
  • Polsky, J. Y., Moineddin, R., Glazier, R. H., Dunn, J. R., & Booth, G. L., “Foodscapes of Southern Ontario: Neighbourhood Deprivation and Access to Healthy and Unhealthy Food Retail,”Canadian Journal of Public Health Vol. 105, No. 5 (2014), 369–375.
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• Labour

  • Heron, Craig, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City, Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.
  • International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, Local Union 205 Painters, Hamilton, Ont.: The Union, 1994.
  • Kristofferson, Robert, Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840–1872, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
  • Kristofferson, Robert, The First Century, 1899–1999: Local 107 Amalgamated Transit Union, Hamilton, Ont.: Ontario Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre, 1999.
  • Kristofferson, Robert, “The Past is at Our Feet: The Workers’ City Project in Hamilton, Ontario,” Labour / Le Travail Vol. 41 (Spring, 1998), 181–197.
  • Roberts, Wayne, The Hamilton Working Class, 1820–1977: A Bibliography, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster Universities Labour Studies Programme, 1978.
  • United Steelworkers of America, Local 1005, It Started with a Whisper: A History of the 1946 Strike, Hamilton, Ont.: Local 1005, 1996.
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• Nursing

  • Brydges, Madison, “A Case Study of Older Adult Experiences with a Novel Community Paramedicine Program,” Open-access manuscript, 2014. [MA thesis]
  • Campbell, Marjorie Freeman, The Hamilton General Hospital School of Nursing, 1890–1955, Toronto, Ont.: Ryerson Press,1956.
  • Dalley, Norman D., A History of the Hamilton Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, [S.l.; s.n.], 1966.
  • Savage, Peggy, To Serve with Honour: The Story of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, 1890–1990, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990.
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• Physicians

  • Campbell, Marjorie Freeman, Holbrook of the San, Toronto, Ont.: Ryerson Press,1953.
  • Stott, R. M., Hamilton’s Doctors, 1863–1935: Guardians of the City’s Health, Hamilton, Ont.: Hamilton Academy of Medicine, 1995.
  • Smith, Edward A.W., Hamilton’s Doctors, 1932–1982, Ambrose McGhie Museum, 2004.
  • Smith, Edward A.W., Healers and Healing in the Dundas Valley, Dundas Museum and Archives, 2009.
  • Roland, Charles, Noted Surgeon, Fine Citizen: The Life of Archibald E. Malloch, M.D. 1844 – 1919, McGill University, 2008.
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• Tuberculosis

  • Grygier, Pat, A Long Way From Home: Tuberculosis Among the Inuit, Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.
  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Before the ‘San:’ Tuberculosis in Hamilton at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2007.
  • Toth, Anita Meredith, Historical and Present-Day Tuberculosis in Hamilton, Ontario: A Public Health Focus, Hamilton, Ont.: McMaster University, 2001.
  • Williamson, Robert, ed., Chedoke: More Than A Sanatorium, Hamilton Health Sciences, 2006.
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• Venereal Disease & Prostitution

  • Herring, Ann D., ed., Damage Control: The Untold Story of Venereal Disease in Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.: Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 2014.
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• Women

  • Chadwick, Sarah, “Child Feeding Practices, Authoritative Knowledge, and the Mediation of Social Support Networks Among New Canadian Mothers Living in Hamilton, Ontario,” Open-access manuscript, 2010. [MA thesis]
  • Farmer, Tracy, “Putting Health in its Place: Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of Health in Hamilton’s North End,” Open-access manuscript, 2004. [PhD thesis]
  • Nielson, Carmen, Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton, Ontario, 1846–93, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
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