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File contains one copy of the essay Cisgender Privilege: On the privileges of performing normative gender by Evin Taylor, dated 2010, and the report Eligibility and readiness criteria for Sex Reassignment Surgery: Recommendations for Revision of the WPATH Standards of Care; file also contains conference program and notes for the 1st Annual Health Equity Forum, held on March 18, 2011.
File contains two photographs from the groundbreaking of the rehabilitation hospital in Halifax; typed cutlines that accompany the photographs; correspondence with the Canadian Paraplegic Association and Arthur H. Shears; an article called "A Concept of Rehabilitation" by Herbert S. Talbot; several typed drafts of newspaper articles about the rehabilitation centre; a pamphlet about the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre; and a document called "Preliminary Report on Planning for Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Center and Faculty of Allied Health Professions Dalhousie University." The file also includes newspaper clippings from the Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star of articles written by Barbara Hinds about the rehabilitation centre.
Item consists of two drafts of an announcement about the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University, beginning September 3, 1963; as well as a handwritten sheet outlining the experience of Arthur Shears, first director of the School.
File contains materials documenting exchanges between AIDS Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Department of Health regarding project initiatives and funding, including correspondence, meeting agendas, project recommendations, and funding proposals.
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
File contains printed email correspondence regarding the staffing and sizing of hospital stroke units. File also includes a document that shows the number of hospital separations in the Nova Scotia Stroke Audit grouped by District Health Authority and case-volume category.
Item consists of a typed letter from Arthur Shears to Barbara Hinds, dated March 6, 1969, about editorial suggestions related to Hinds' coverage of the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.
Item consists of clippings of articles written in 1969 by Barbara Hinds for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star about wait times and overcrowding issues at the original Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.
Item consists of five newspaper clippings of articles written by Barbara Hinds for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star related to the construction and operations of the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, under Arthur Shears' direction, written between 1975 and 1977.
Item consists of clippings related to the career of Arthur Shears and his work with the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, drawn from the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star, between 1977 and 1990.
File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to LGBT issues. Subjects covered include the deportation of Alla Pitcherskaia, LGBT inclusion efforts at Xerox, homophobia, LGBT terminology, the closure of the Red Herring Co-operative Book Store in Halifax, LGBT toys, and organ donations.
File contains one copy of the article Queer Health Matters: Get Your Yearly Pap Smear - Boys Included! by Dawn Archambault, and one copy of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition final project report guidelines for 2005.
File contains materials realting to meetings of Atlantic Gay and Lesbian Professional in Health Care and Social Services. Materials include a report from the first meeting of the group, held March 30-31, 1985. File also contains meeting agenda from September 5, 1985, and 1 page of handwritten notes.