Medicine
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From  Out of One, ManyFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo traces the evolution of Canadian medicine over the past half century, from a single-physician model to a system exceeding one hundred specialties. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Pandemics Past: How Infections Have Defined HumanityFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 1 explores the history of infectious diseases in Canada and human coexistence with infection. Topics discussed include malaria, gene mutations, cystic fibrosis, cholera, antibiotics, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From SmallpoxFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 66 | 2022 | $6.60 Add |
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From  Struggling for Heroin-assisted Treatment: The 2000sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses Canada’s first federally sanctioned supervised injection site that opened in Vancouver in 2003. The efficacy of heroin assisted treatment programs in other countries … | Susan C. Boyd | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From SyphilisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From The Long, Narrow PathFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines the evolution of Canadian medical education and the growing shortage of community-based family physicians. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of “good” vs “bad” drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this … | Susan C. Boyd | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From TuberculosisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 61 | 2022 | $6.10 Add |
