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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
About Face Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada Breakwater Books	About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face …	Douglass Gosse	424	2019	View
Basic Income For Canadians From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All James Lorimer and Company	Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put …	Evelyn L. Forget	258	2020	View
Doctors in Denial Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort James Lorimer and Company	Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of …	Joel Lexchin MD	344	2017	View
Field Excercises How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities New Society Publishers	There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and …	Stephanie Westlund	242	2014	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being	This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when …		136		View
Medicare Facts, Myths, Problems & Promise James Lorimer and Company	Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often …	Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon		2007	View
Out Loud Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery Breakwater Books	Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by …	Ramona Dearing	240	2010	View
Pilgrim Souls Caring for a Loved One with Dementia Formac Publishing	This memoir focuses on an experience all of us dread. Pat Lotz was an accomplished author and editor, active in her community, and a loving wife and mother. She succumbed to dementia which was …	Jim Lotz	224	2013	View
Secret Life of Your Microbiome Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness New Society Publishers	The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the …	Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott	387	2017	View
Sick and Tired Health and Safety Inequalities Fernwood Publishing	Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the …	Stephanie Premji	203	2018	View
From Foreword From: Doctors in Denial Preview James Lorimer and Company	In this personal account Dr. Brian Goldman explains his relationship with Purdue Pharma Canada and how he played a major role as a promoter of OxyContin, for chronic pain, falsely claiming that …	Dr. Brian Goldman	8	2017	$0.80 Add
From Forward From: Out Loud Preview Breakwater Books	Forward	Ramona Dearing	2	2010	$0.20 Add
From Health of the Population From: Health and Wealth Preview	A discussion of Canadian policies and pracices around the promotion of a healthy population in Canada in the 1990s, with context on activities elsewhere in the developed world in the same time period.		22		$2.20 Add
From Introduction From: Pilgrim Souls Preview Formac Publishing	Outlines the purpose of the book, why he wrote it, important information about cargiving, the progress of Pat’s diagnosis, and talks about the hope of the book to inspire, help and give …	Jim Lotz	12	2013	$1.20 Add
From Introduction From: Basic Income For Canadians Preview James Lorimer and Company	The introduction provides an overview of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic how it may play a role in the adoption of basic income.	Evelyn L. Forget	6	2020	$0.60 Add

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