Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature derived from the very fabric of that literature - in this case Canadian.
Shane Neilson is a Fellow of the Family Physicians of Canada and has been practising medicine since 2000. He is currently an assistant clinical professor and faculty member of the Waterloo Regional Campus of McMaster University. He earned his Ph.D. in English in 2019 from McMaster, where he was awarded the Governor-General's Gold Medal for his dissertation work. Neilson also was awarded SSHRC's "Talent" award given to a single Canadian Ph.D. student in the social sciences and humanities in 2018. The author of many trade books of poetry, nonfiction, and short fiction, Neilson lives with his family along the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario.
