Jacalyn Duffin, C.M.
Kingston, Ontario
Jacalyn Duffin has grounded modern medicine in its historical context. This professor emerita at Queen’s University has drawn on her unique background in both clinical medicine and the humanities to enhance our understanding of scientific research and health care of the past and the present. She has also played a key role in the growth of medical history and in applying historical activism to current policy problems. She is equally renowned among peers and students for her mentorship and efforts to nurture a humane medical profession.