PhD Student Publishes Articles on Surgical History
Congratulations go out to PhD student聽Cynthia Tang, who was the Department's first Research Fellow at the Canadian Science and Technology Museums in the summer of 2016: read her 聽on the CSTMC blog.
Recently Cynthia, in collaboration with her supervisor,聽Prof. Thomas Schlich, has published two articles. 聽"" (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聽article on has just appeared in the October 2016 issue of聽The Lancet.聽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.聽