Manuscripts and Publications

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
B2017-0007/014(04) Jack Batten and Michael Bliss, “Sherlock Holmes’ great Canadian adventure,” Weekend Magazine, 1977-05-28, 8-14 File 1977
B2017-0007/014(05) Banting: A biography. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. Poster for “A Banting night”, University of Toronto Bookroom, 1984-03-29 File 1984
B2017-0007/023(11) “Press a button and let go,” Financial Post, 1970-10-24 File 1970
B2017-0007/023(16) Fiction: Various pieces File [197-]
B2017-0007/023(17) Memories: “Mother”, Draft, 1980-07-26 File 1980
B2017-0007/023(24) Memories: [Illegible title], 1996-11-30 File 1996
B2017-0007/023(29) “A sudden reprieve,” International Diabetes Federation Bulletin, XXVII, 2 (May 1982) 29-31 File 1982
B2017-0007/023(32) “The great gamble,” Saturday Night, 97, 7 (July 1982) 13-21; “The economics of health care,” Saturday Night, 97, 8 (August 1982) 11-13; “The next depression,” Saturday Night, 97, 8 (August 1982) 19-26; “The battle that business lost,” Canadian Business, 55, 11 (November 1982) 48-55 File 1982
B2017-0007/024(10) “Life writing in medical history”: interview with Michael Bliss and Jacalyn Duffin, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 13 (1996) 123-137 File 1996
B2017-0007/024(17) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. “Misc. correspondence”: master file re the Osler biography File 1998-2003
B2017-0007/024(19) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Unpublished letters re book File 1999
B2017-0007/026(05) “Health care without hindrance: Medicare and the Canadian identity,” in David Gratzer, ed., Better Medicine: Reforming Canada’s health care. Toronto: ECW Press, 2002, 31-43 File 2002
B2017-0007/026(06) “Yet the birds kept singing,” National Post, 2002-11-11, A1, A6 File 2002
B2017-0007/026(09) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Correspondence with publishers (U of T Press and Oxford University Press) File 2005
B2017-0007/026(15) Wookey, Charles F. and Michael Bliss, “William Osler: slow pulse, Stokes-Adams Disease, and sudden death in families,” American Heart Hospital Journal, (Winter 2006), 60-65 File 1998-2006
B2017-0007/026(18) “Harvey Cushing and the birth of neurosurgery,” Clinical Neurosurgery, 54 (July 2007) Chapter 10 File 2007
B2017-0007/026(20) “After 1918: From chaos to Mackenzie King,” The Beaver, Oct.-Nov. 2008, 22-23. Correspondence File 2008
B2017-0007/027(02) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Draft, 2004-10-12. “For Marty Edelstein. This is one of six copies…MB, Oct. 14/64”: most of the manuscript with annotations and covering correspondence from Edelstein. File 2004
B2017-0007/030(02) Critical condition: A historian’s prognosis on Canada’s Aging healthcare system. Toronto: C. D. Howe Institute, 2010 (released 18 November). Bliss’ C. D. Howe Benefactors Lecture, 2010-11-17, with extensive readers’ comments, and two earlier Benefactors Lectures File 2004-2010
B2017-0007/030(04) The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning points in the treatment of disease. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Revised draft, 2009-02-17 File 2009
B2017-0007/030(05) The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning points in the treatment of disease. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Correspondence File 2010-2011
B2017-0007/030(06) “The last latchkeyer: The tragedy of John Fulton, in Jeremiah A. Barondess and Charles S. Bryan, ed. The Persisting Osler, IV: Selected transactions of the American Osler Society, 2001-2010. Sycamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2011, 151-160. Correspondence File 2011
B2017-0007/030(07) Chapter for Great Discoveries in Medicine, ed. William & Helen Bynum. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. Correspondence File 2010
B2017-0007/030(08) Editorials for Journal of Neurosurgery. Copyright assignment File 2010
B2017-0007/030(09) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. “Believing: A professor’s life in our times”. 1st draft, begun Jan. 12, 2006 File 2006
B2017-0007/030(14) “Sir Frederick Grant Banting,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XVII (1941-1950), online. French version File
B2017-0007/030(16) “John James Rickard Macleod,” submitted to Dictionary of Canadian Biography. French version File
B2017-0007/030(19) Leaside Life articles File 2013-2016
B2017-0007/031(02) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. Liz Bliss’s copy with her suggested revisions File 2009
B2017-0007_df007 Manuscripts and Publications [digital files] File 1993-2017
B2017-0007/001P(44) Photoprint of Michael Bliss holding a copy of The discovery of insulin File 1982?
B2017-0007/023(07) Book reviews File 1972-1996
B2017-0007/023(08) ‘Searching for Canadian history,” Queen’s Quarterly, LXXV, 3 (Autumn 1968) File 1968
B2017-0007/023(09) “The Methodist Church and World War I,’ Canadian Historical Review, XLIX, 3 (September 1968) 213-33 File 1968
B2017-0007/023(10) “Neglected radicals,” Canadian Forum, 50th anniversary issue, April-May 1970, 16-17 File 1970
B2017-0007/023(14) Fiction: “Home town boy”. Draft File [197-]
B2017-0007/023(20) Memories: “A child’s Christmases in Kingsville.” Draft, January 1981. File 1981
B2017-0007/023(21) Memories: “Jeeves in Ottawa”. Drafts, July 1981 File 1981
B2017-0007/023(23) Memories: “A historian”. Draft, 1983-11-11 File 1983
B2017-0007/023(27) “The unconventional wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith,” Saturday Night, 96, 5 (May 1981) 17-28 File 1981
B2017-0007/023(28) The discovery of insulin. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1982. Comments by Hank McIntosh on portions of the manuscript File [198-]
B2017-0007/023(31) “Banting’s, Best’s, and Collip’s accounts of the discovery of insulin,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 56 (1982) 554-568 File 1982
B2017-0007/024(12) “The chimera of self-determination,” Time, 1998-03-09, 33; “Discovering the insulin documents: an archival adventure,” Watermark, XXI, 3 (Summer 1998) 60-66 File 1998
B2017-0007/024(13) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Correspondence with archival repository sources File 1994-1998
B2017-0007/024(25) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Governor General’s Award File 1999
B2017-0007/026(02) “William Osler at 150,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 161, 7 (5 October 1999), 831-834 File 1999
B2017-0007/026(04) “A response to the commentaries,” Constructing history in biography: A symposium on William Osler: A life in medicine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 75, 4 (Winter 2001) 767-770 File 2001
B2017-0007/026(07) “Identity Trilogy”, 3 part column in National Post, 13, 14, 15 January 2003, re the issues of Canadian identity & diversity with reaction, related columns, and supporting articles by Michael Bliss File 1968, 1992, 2003
B2017-0007/026(19) The Walrus Foundation. Freelance agreement, 2008-09-23 File 2008
B2017-0007/026(21) “Ignoring our constitutional tradition,” National Post, 2008-12-06; “Spoiled children take it too far,” 2008-12-08 [both re constitutional crisis of 2008-2009] File 2008