Dateline: Haiti, January 2010. Robin Cardamore, a fourth-year resident in emergency medicine at McGill, does her rounds in a field hospital. She learns that the elderly woman in Tent 2, Row 8, has not heard from her family since the recent catastrophic earthquake. Cardamore circulates from tent to tent, piecing together fractured information about who might know whom. Hunches are played, calls are placed and — after a tense wait — good news is finally relayed back to Tent 2. A happy ending, yes, but Cardamore is struck by the disconnect between medical care and the inability to organize follow-up. She decides to develop a patient-tracking system that health care workers can use in hand-held devices. This is McGill’s brand new Humanitarian Studies Initiative in action.
Volume 2, Number 1
by Jeff Roberts McGill neuroscientists span political chasms When Herbert Jasper met with a group of scientists in Moscow in 1958 to discuss the then fledgling discipline of brain research, the prominent McGill neuroscientist had a definite agenda—to reclaim science for the scientists. During the Cold War, science was but another arena for the opposing [...]
Volume 1, Number 1
By Jennifer Towell A multi-tasking professor makes connections around the world to foster peace in the Middle East Back in 1983, an undergraduate political science student at the University of Victoria had two choices for his honours thesis: the Falklands War or the conflict in Lebanon. His wife weighed in – the South Atlantic was [...]
