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Casey Hurrell
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M.A. Candidate
History of public health; 20th century Canadian and British history, international/diplomatic history

E-mail:   casey.hurrell@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298

Education

B.A. Honours - Carleton University (2010)


About

I graduated with a degree in History from Carleton University with highest honours in June 2010. At Carleton, my work focused on the history of public health, with a particular emphasis on the inter-war period in Britain and Canada. During the last two years of my undergrad, I also had the opportunity to work on a SSHRC-funded study of the handling of mass death during the 1918 influenza pandemic in three Ontario communities: Kingston, St. Thomas, and Kenora.

My Master's work will build upon that research, and I intend to complete a comparative study of British and Canadian public health responses to the pandemic. In particular, I am examining how societal perceptions about government involvement in matters of health shaped the regulations enacted to handle the pandemic, and how these were informed by dominant medical ideas about the relationship between the patient and the state.

I am the teaching assistant for PHIL 201: Philosophy and Medicine: History of Medical Ideas; and HIST 288: The Rise of the British Empire.


Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6. 613.533.2000