“Couvade” in Ontario.

Rethinking the Couvade

T he need and the necessity to represent the natural process of birth by means of a symbolic action and to organize it ritually as a cultural process of constructing personhood are inherent to all human groups, which have always sought to transmit their collective experience through their cultural system as a whole. The very continuity of the community depends on these events in which social or...

Couvade Syndrome among Polish expectant fathers

BACKGROUND The aim of the conducted study was to analyze the phenomenon of Couvade Syndrome amongst fathers expecting their children in Poland. The authors examined the frequency of couvade symptoms in male subjects as well as their associations with male empathy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research involved 143 expectant fathers. All subjects attended antenatal classes, and their female partne...

A Critical Review of the Couvade Syndrome: the Pregnant Male

Clinical Telemedicine Utilization in Ontario over the Ontario Telemedicine Network

INTRODUCTION Northern Ontario is a region in Canada with approximately 775,000 people in communities scattered across 803,000 km(2). The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) facilitates access to medical care in areas that are often underserved. We assessed how OTN utilization differed throughout the province. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used OTN medical service utilization data collected through ...

Body-snatching in Ontario.

In a well known scene in Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck watch while Injun Joe and two associates, one of them a doctor, open a grave in the cemetery at midnight to steal a recently buried body. The purpose of the theft was to use the body for anatomical teaching. This scene was based on life. Throughout the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, grave-robbers stole newly buried corpses to ...