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1. Putting the "Grenfell Effect" in its Place: Medical Tales and Autobiographical Narratives in Twentieth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador.

Author

Connor, J. T. H.

Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PHYSICIANS as authors, MEDICAL missionaries, CANADIAN literature, LITERARY criticism, TWENTIETH century
Abstract

The article discusses the development of medical autobiography--the life writings of physicians and allied health workers--in Newfoundland and Labrador in the 20th century, with attention to the influence on the genre of medical missionary Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) and the local print culture he inspired. A case study is also presented, of "Snowshoe & Lancet: Memoirs of a Frontier Newfoundland Doctor, 1937-1948," published in 2000 by American physician Robert Skidmore Ecke (1909-2001).

Published
2010