| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Peter L. Twohig. Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900–1950. (Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, number 23.) Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 241. $70.00.

This short book (166 pages of actual text) expands the medical gaze to include laboratory workers in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the Maritimes, in particular the Pathological Institute in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Bureau of Laboratories in Saint John, New Brunswick, but including labs in the rest of Canada, Peter L. Twohig has written a readable and fascinating study examining what was largely a female work force. In addition to the introductory essay, there are five chapters, the first two tracing the development of the laboratories, followed by three focusing specifically on the workers: who they were; the work they did; and how they were recruited, their workplace mobility, and the wages paid.

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