Much of this part also looks at the reactions to and the perceptions of Bonne Bay Hospital xiii JOHN K. CRELLIN employees and patients to the changes that led to the closure of the hos- pital and the opening of the new “health centre.” The epilogue to the account challenges readers to consider what society wants of its hospi- tals in the twenty-first century and, in particular, asks health care ad [...] Indeed, it would seem that the contribution went well beyond what the Commission of Government expected of a community, namely to provide a site (if crown land was unavailable) and voluntary labour in the construc- tion.19 Given the size of the community contribution to the Bonne Bay building (as discussed in a later section), it is not surprising that a sense of ownership remains alive in the mem [...] In the early years, besides the morgue, there were sheds for the three generators (one for the X-ray, the other two for batteries for hospital electricity), an ice house, and a garage.20 In any list of “heroes” of the Bonne Bay hospital, certainly in its early years, the name of Martin Bugden stands out as janitor extraordi- naire for over twenty years from the opening of the hospital. [...] As Jane Hutchings, the district nurse at Cow Head, wrote in 1965: “In the days before the road and telephone to the hospital, I was an ‘apology for a doctor and a dentist.’ Today, I am a nurse working in co-operation with, and under the direction of the Department of Health and the doctor at Norris Point Hospital.”30 A constant worry for the nurses, especially in the wintertime, was how to get pat [...] Aside from the social con- sequences of the Pill, it heralded an era of greater uncertainties over the safety of doctors’ medicines, debates on medicine and moral issues, and a widening of the door to what has been called the “medicalization” of society in the second half of the century.
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Table of Contents
- J O H N K . C R E L L I N 3
- CONTENTS 7
- P A 9
- REFACE AND CKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
- NTRODUCTION 11
- T E Y 19391960 21
- HE ARLY EARS 21
- 1. OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL 22
- 2. WALKING THROUGH THE HOSPITAL 49
- C U T 1960 O 87
- HANGE AND NCERTAINTY HE S NWARD 87
- W C B L 109
- HAT AN E EARNED 109
- FOR UTURE EALTH ARE 109
- F H C 109
- Appendix 1 119
- C H R R 1950 119
- Appendix 2 123
- Appendix 3 125
- Appendix 4 127
- Appendix 5 128
- OTES AND REFERENCES 133
- I N 155
- NDEX OF AMES 155
- I S 156
- NDEX OF UBJECTS 156
