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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() About FaceEssays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada |
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 CanadiansFrom the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All |
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 DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort |
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 |
![]() Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
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 WealthHow 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 | ||
![]() MedicareFacts, Myths, Problems & Promise |
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 LoudEssays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery |
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 SoulsCaring for a Loved One with Dementia |
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 MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
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 TiredHealth and Safety Inequalities |
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 ![]() ForewordFrom: Doctors in Denial |
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 ![]() ForwardFrom: Out Loud |
Forward | Ramona Dearing | 2 | 2010 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Health of the PopulationFrom: Health and Wealth |
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 ![]() IntroductionFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() IntroductionCauses and Expressions of Inequalities From: Sick and Tired |
- | Stephanie Premji | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |