Introduction / C. David Naylor -- Medical science and social criticism: Alexander Peter Reid and the ideological origins of the welfare state in Canada / Colin D. Howell -- Military medicine and state medicine: historical notes on the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the first World War, 1914-1919 / Desmond Morton -- Development of neuropsychiatry in the Canadian Army (overseas), 1939-1943 / Terry Copp -- "A necessary nuisance": social class and parental visiting rights at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, 1930-1970 / Judith Young -- Socialism and social insurance in the United States and Canada / Stephen J. Kunitz -- Canadian health-care system: a developmental overview / Eugene Vayda and Raisa B. Deber -- Making Canada safe for sex: government and the problem of sexually transmitted disease in the twentieth century / Jay Cassel -- Equity and health care / Robin F. Badgley and Samuel Wolfe
