Professor and Hannah Chair: History of Medicine
M.D. (Toronto), F.R.C.P.(C), Ph.D. (Sorbonne)

 
Specialization: Medical Epistemology, Concepts of Disease, History of Medicine. 
Office: 78 Barrie St. 
Office Hours: By appointment 
Phone: (613) 533.6000 ext. 36580 
E-mail: duffinj@queensu.ca
Website: http://meds.queensu.ca/medicine/histm/jacalyn-duffin.html 

Jacalyn Duffin is a Canadian, a hematologist (Toronto MD, FRCPC), a historian (PhD Sorbonne), and a mother. She had worked as a physician in France, Quebec, Newfoundland, and several Ontario cities, including Toronto, London, Thunder Bay, and Ottawa before accepting the Queen's Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine in 1988. Here she teaches graduates and undergraduates in the School of Medicine and in Philosophy and History. Her research focuses on medical epistemology and the history of medical saints and miracles. She is the author of four books, an edited volume, and many articles. Her History of Medicine; A Scandalously Short Introduction (UToronto P 1999) is used in teaching across Canada, the United States and England. Her Goodman Lectures of 2002 will appear as Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History (U Toronto Press). A set of essays, which she has edited, written by historians who are also medical practitioners, Clio in the Clinic, is forthcoming (Oxord U Press & U Toronto Press, 2004).