Carstairs, Catherine -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Catherine
Last Name: 
Carstairs
Department / Program: 
History
University Affiliation: 
University of Guelph
Phone: 
5198244120
Extension: 
53185
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Medicine
Geographical Region: 
Canada
Time Period: 
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of Illegal Drug Use, History of Food and Nutrition, Alternative Health, Fluoridation,
Academics
PHD Program: 
History
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2000
Major Publications: 
Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada, 1920-1961. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (With Nancy Janovicek eds.) Writing Feminist History: Productive Pasts and New Directions (Forthcoming, UBC Press, 2013) "Disability and Citzenship in the Life and Fiction of Jean Little" Histoire Sociale/Social History November 2013 "The Granola High: Health Food in Canada" in Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History eds. Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Valerie Korinek (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) "'Our sickness record is a national disgrace'': Adelle Davis, Nutritional Determinism and the Anxious 1970s" Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 67, 4 (October 2012) (Advance E-Publication) “Food, Fear and the Environment in the Long 1960s.” In Debating Dissent: The 1960s in Canada, edited by Dominique Clement, Lara Campbell and Greg Kealey. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) "Cities without Cavities: Democracy, Risk, and Public Health." Journal of Canadian Studies 44, no. 2 (2010): 146-70.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Canadian Historical Association, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, American Association for the History of Medicine
Courses Taught: 
Canadian History 1867-Present, Canadian Cultural Identity, History of Gender and Sexuality, Canadian Social History, Topics in Global History