PhD Student Publishes Articles on Surgical History
Congratulations go out to PhD student Cynthia Tang, who was the Department's first Research Fellow at the Canadian Science and Technology Museums in the summer of 2016: read her  on the CSTMC blog.
Recently Cynthia, in collaboration with her supervisor, Prof. Thomas Schlich, has published two articles.  "" (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences) uses the first randomized controlled trial evaluating laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gall bladder) to investigate the introduction of minimally invasive surgery in the 1990s.
In addition, Cynthia and Thomas's article on has just appeared in the October 2016 issue of The Lancet. Based on recollections of Canadian pioneers of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, this article reveals how patients sought out the new operation, and urged surgeons to extend the minimally invasive intervention to children and pregnant women.Â