Michael Bliss

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According to Wikipedia, John William Michael Bliss was a Canadian historian and author. Though his early works focused on business and political history, he also wrote biographies of physicians Frederick Banting, William Osler and Harvey Cushing. Bliss was a frequent commentator on political events and issues. He was an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Michael Bliss's Published Works

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Published Works

The Discovery of Insulin (2021) (302)
William Osler: A Life in Medicine (1999) (123)
Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business (1990) (81)
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery (2005) (77)
Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada (1992) (66)
The History of Insulin (1993) (49)
Banting: A Biography (1984) (40)
Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney (1996) (28)
“Pure Books on Avoided Subjects”: Pre-Freudian Sexual Ideas in Canada* (1970) (27)
Resurrections in Toronto: The Emergence of Insulin (2005) (25)
Critical Condition: A Historian's Prognosis on Canada's Aging Healthcare System (2010) (25)
Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal (1991) (22)
A living profit : studies in the social history of Canadian business, 1883-1911 (1976) (21)
The discovery of insulin: the inside story. (1997) (18)
A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., 1858-1939 (1978) (17)
Professional gentlemen: the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario (1996) (16)
Another Anti-Trust Tradition: Canadian Anti-Combines Policy, 1889–1910 (1973) (15)
J. J. R. Macleod and the discovery of insulin. (1989) (14)
The Social Passion: Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914–28 by Richard Allen (review) (2016) (12)
The Discovery of Insulin: The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (2000) (12)
William Osler at 150. (1999) (10)
Affliction and Forgiveness: An Interview with Paul Schrader (2000) (10)
Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir (2000) (8)
The making of modern medicine: turning points in the treatment of disease The making of modern medicine: turning points in the treatment of disease Bliss Michael University of Chicago Press £11.50 112pp 9780226059013 0226059014 [Formula: see text]. (2011) (8)
A Response to the Commentaries (2001) (7)
The word made flesh : catholicism and conflict in the films of Martin Scorsese (1995) (7)
A Living Profit: Studies in the Social History of Canadian Business 1883-1911 (1976) (7)
Who Discovered Insulin (1986) (6)
Keeping a Sense of Wonder: Interview with Peter Weir (1999) (5)
A Long Prelude (1982) (5)
A Mysterious Something (1982) (4)
Diabetes: its medical and cultural history:outlines, texts, bibliography (1992) (4)
Olanzapine and Lorazepam Used in the Symptomatic Management of Excited Catatonia Secondary to Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis (2020) (3)
What Goes Around Comes Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme (1996) (3)
Justified lives : morality & narrative in the films of Sam Peckinpah (1993) (3)
William S. Halsted and Harvey W. Cushing: reflections on their complex association. (2009) (3)
Discovering the insulin documents: an archival adventure. (1998) (3)
Associated Medical Services, Incorporated: a history (1989) (2)
Harvey Cushing. (2011) (2)
Fielding's Bill of Fare in Tom Jones (1963) (2)
The River Barons: Montreal Businessmen and the Growth of Industry and Transportation, 1837–53. By Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1977. Pp. xiv + 310. $20.00 (1978) (1)
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch : “Back Off to What?” Enclosure, Violence, and Capitalism in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1998) (1)
Doing it right : the best criticism on Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch (1994) (1)
William Osler: slow pulse, stokes-adams disease, and sudden death in families. (2006) (1)
The Making of Modern Medicine - Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease Bliss Michael The Making of Modern Medicine - Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease 112pp University of Chicago Press 9780226059013 0226059014 [Formula: see text]. (2010) (1)
Confederation : a new nationality (1981) (1)
More Comments on "Who Discovered Insulin?" (1986) (1)
The Public Eye: Television and the Politics of Canadian Broadcasting 1952–1968. By Frank W. Peers. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 459. $25.00 (1981) (1)
The social history of Canada (1975) (1)
Review: What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past by James FitzGerald (2011) (1)
Medical Exceptionalism (2012) (1)
E. P. Taylor (1983) (1)
1. Growth, Progress, and the Quest for Salvation: Confessions of a Medical Historian (2008) (0)
Introduction: What Happened at Toronto? (2000) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Banting’s Idea (2000) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. A Long Prelude (2000) (0)
A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (2019) (0)
Report of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration (review) (2016) (0)
A History of Dentistry in Canada by D.W. Gullett (review) (2016) (0)
Book Reviews: Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain Until Insulin (2011) (0)
The enterprising Canadians: Entrepreneurs and economic development in eastern Canada, 1820?1914 and (Eds), (St John's, Newfoundland: Memorial University, 1979. Pp. 313. $10a00) (1980) (0)
Introduction:: The Wild Bunch at Fifty (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past James FitzGeraldWhat Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past James FitzGerald Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010, 497 p., $34.95 (2011) (0)
John B. Neilson and G. R. Paterson, Associated Medical Services, Incorporated: a history , Toronto, Associated Medical Services and the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1987, 8vo, pp. 445, illus., $15.00. (1989) (0)
A Concise History of Business in Canada by Graham D. Taylor, and Peter A. Baskerville (review) (2016) (0)
Justified (2019) (0)
Rhetorical analysis of Paul's Epistle to the Colossians (1998) (0)
A Continuing Epilogue (1982) (0)
Canadian Public Figures on Tape (review) (2016) (0)
Radical Politics and Canadian Labour 1880–1930 by Martin Robin (review) (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
The Word Made Flesh (1995) (0)
Canada’s First Bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal, vol. 2, by Merrill Denison (review) (1968) (0)
Beaverbrook: The Canadian Adventuress (1973) (0)
The Summer of 1921 (1982) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. “Unspeakably Wonderful” (2000) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Resurrection (2000) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 64, Suppl. 2, 2005 (2005) (0)
In the Shadow of Giants: The Story of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway by Norman S. Helm (review) (2016) (0)
On Graduate Literary Study (2016) (0)
Honouring the Prophets (1982) (0)
The History of Canadian Business: Reviewer's Response (1977) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1955) (0)
R D Gidney and W P J Millar, Professional gentlemen: the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario , Ontario Historical Studies series, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xv, 505, £39.00, $60.00 (hardback 0-8020-0619-1), £16.00, $24.00 (paperback 0-8020-7580-0). (1996) (0)
Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto by Timothy J. Colton (review) (2016) (0)
Comments on "Who Discovered Insulin?" (1986) (0)
Review: Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology by Steven C. Caton (2000) (0)
John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age (review) (2011) (0)
Strangers within Our Gates.@@@The Social History of Canada. (1974) (0)
John P. McGovern, MD (2014) (0)
Western medicine makes it good to be alive WF Bynum Anne Ha (2006) (0)
Peckinpah Today: New Essays on the Films of Sam Peckinpah (2012) (0)
William Osler: una vida entregada a la medicina (2006) (0)
Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo (2002) (0)
Theodore Ryder: The last living link to the discovery of insulin (1995) (0)
Constructing history in biography: a symposium on William Osler: a life in medicine. A response to the commentaries. (2001) (0)
OLIVER, Peter, G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario Tory. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1977. 501 p. Illus. $14.95. (1979) (0)
Sick Kids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children by David Wright (review) (2017) (0)
Talking health care in the real world (2010) (0)
Not a One-Way Street: The Autobiography of James S. Duncan by James S. Duncan (review) (2016) (0)
John P. McGovern, MD: A Lifetime of Stories (2014) (0)
Skating on Thick Ice: Tulchinsky and Business History (1969) (0)
: Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology . Steven C. Caton. (2000) (0)
William Osler and the Canadian tradition of medical excellence (2000) (0)
Contrary history: socialized medicine and Canada's decline (2007) (0)
Rogues, Rebels, and Geniuses: The Story of Canadian Medicine by Donald Jack (review) (2016) (0)
Introduction: (2019) (0)
Cocooned in Cosy Canadian Childhood (2007) (0)

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University of Toronto