What got missed in Medicare

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Catherine Carstairs and Heather MacDougall. They made important contributions on what got missed in the making of Canadian Medicare. Their chapters on dental care, prescription drugs and public health are in Medicare’s Histories: Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada, edited by Essylt Jones, James Hanley, and Della Gavrus, and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2022. Catherine Carstairs is a Professor of History at the University of Guelph and has written books on the history of illicit drug policy and public health campaigns in Canada. Heather MacDougall was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo who has published on the history of public health and medicare in Canada.

This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.

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