WARSH, Cheryl Krasnick - Department of History, Vancouver Island University
Cheryl Warsh is a leading social historian who has broken new ground in Canadian healthcare history. Her work has given voice to vulnerable populations including the mentally ill, the addicted, and children in the 19th century, and contextualized gender, health and popular culture in contemporary times. As editor of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, she introduced a generation of medical historians and shaped a flourishing field of research.