Download or read book J. Wendell Macleod written by Louis Horlick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known as Saskatchewan's Red Dean because of his progressive views and strong support of Canada's first medicare plan, J. Wendell Macleod (1905-2001) was a charismatic pioneer in social medicine and medical education. Louis Horlick mines Macleod's diaries, which span seventy-five years, in a vivid biography that also depicts the social and political complexities of health care in Canada in the twentieth century.