Graduate Faculty Directory
Jennifer J. Connor
Education
- BA (University of Guelph)
- MA (York University)
- MPhil (University of Waterloo)
- PhD (University of Western Ontario)
Faculty Appointments
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Publications & Presentations
Books and Edited Collections
- Guardians of Medical Knowledge: The Genesis of the Medical Library Association. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000.
- Book Culture and Medicine (special issue). Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine 12 (2) (1995): 203-459.
- Selected Chapters and Articles
- 'Professional: medical.' In: History of the Book in Canada, Vol. 3, 1918-1980. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 343-46, 2007.
- 'Science, technology, and medicine: constructing authorship.' In: History of the Book in Canada, Vol. 2, 1840-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 177-86, 2005. (With B.H. MacDonald)
- 'Medicine and health.' In: History of the Book in Canada, Vol. 2, 1840-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 419-23, 2005.
- 'Thomsonian medical books and the culture of dissent in Upper Canada.' Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 12 (1995): 289-311. Riddell Award for Best Article, Ontario Historical Society, 1996.
- 'Self-help medical literature in nineteenth-century Canada and the rhetorical convention of plain language.' Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 24 (1994): 265-83.
- 'Semantic bypassing in technical communication: the historical case of antiseptics.' IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 31 (1)(1988): 13-17. (With J.T.H. Connor). Reprinted in Technostyle 11 (3/4) (1994): 59-69.
- 'Medical text and historical context: research issues and methods in history and technical communication.' Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 23 (1993): 211-32.
- Selected Invited Lectures and Conference Papers
- "Writing medicine: George M. Gould and medical communication in Progressive America," Seminar in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, February 2003.
- "Awakening a spirit of enquiry: the reform impulse of Thomsonian medical literature in the Canadas," Francis C. Wood Institute for the
- History of Medicine Seminar, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, November 1995.
- 'A "purely scientific" goal: constructing an international exchange of biomedical literature,' Fifth British-North American Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society, University of King's College, Halifax, August 2004.
- 'Discrimination in the sharing of medical literature, 1890s-1950s,' 'Anglo-American Medical Relations: Historical Insights,' University of London, June 2003.
- '"The Johnson of medical lexicography": George M. Gould and medical publishing in America,' Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, University of London, July 2002.
- 'Assigning responsibility: the ethos of medical authorship in Canada,' Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, University of Toronto, May 2002.
