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| Medical miracles: doctors, saints, and healing in the modern world J Duffin Oxford University Press, 2009 | 170 | 2009 |
| Memory for melodies and lyrics in Alzheimer's disease LL Cuddy, JM Duffin, SS Gill, CL Brown, R Sikka, AD Vanstone Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 29 (5), 479-491, 2012 | 115 | 2012 |
| Lovers and livers: Disease concepts in history J Duffin University of Toronto Press, 2005 | 114 | 2005 |
| Making the case for history in medical education DS Jones, JA Greene, J Duffin, J Harley Warner Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 70 (4), 623-652, 2015 | 110 | 2015 |
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| Evoking the moral imagination: using stories to teach ethics and professionalism to nursing, medical, and law students M Weisberg, J Duffin Journal of Medical Humanities 16 (4), 247-263, 1995 | 83 | 1995 |
| Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life J Duffin University of Toronto Press, 1999 | 74 | 1999 |
| Baring the sole: the rise and fall of the shoe-fitting fluoroscope J Duffin, CRR Hayter Isis 91 (2), 260-282, 2000 | 64 | 2000 |
| Exceptional preservation of memory for tunes and lyrics: case studies of amusia, profound deafness, and Alzheimer's disease AD Vanstone, LL Cuddy, JM Duffin, E Alexander Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1169 (1), 291-294, 2009 | 61 | 2009 |
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| Why does cirrhosis belong to Laennec? JM Duffin CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 137 (5), 393, 1987 | 42 | 1987 |
| The interwoven history of mercury poisoning in Ontario and Japan A Mosa, J Duffin CMAJ 189 (5), E213-E215, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
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| Therapy and disease concepts: The history (and future?) of antimony in cancer J Duffin, BG Campling Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 57 (1), 61-78, 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| “Anti–moine; Anti–biotique”: The Public Fortunes of the Secret Properties of Antimony Potassium Tartrate (Tartar Emetic) J Duffin, P René Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences 46 (4), 440-456, 1991 | 33 | 1991 |
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