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Cover of "The Heartbeat of Innovation" by Edward Shorter, Hugh Scully, and Bernard Goldman, 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Image courtesy of University of Toronto Archives.


  • The Heartbeat of Innovation: A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital

    About the Authors:

    Dr. Edward Shorter is the Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and holds a cross-appointment as Professor of Psychiatry.  A social historian of medicine and clinical science, Professor Shorter has published widely in this field, including histories of obstetrics and gynaecology (Women’s Bodies, 1982; rev. 1991), the doctor-patient relationship (Doctors and Their Patients, 1991), psychosomatic illness (From Paralysis to Fatigue, 1992) and sexuality (Written in the Flesh, 2005). He is also the author of Partnership for Excellence (2013), which traces the evolution of Toronto’s academic health science network, and co-author of The Heartbeat of Innovation (2022), a history of cardiac surgery at the Toronto General Hospital.


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