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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! A Life Spent Listening |
A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili. In … | Hassan Khalili | 224 | 2022 | View |
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 … | Douglas 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 |
NEW! BleedDestroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care |
Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED — part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all … | Tracey Lindeman | 322 | 2023 | View |
NEW! Country of PoxesThree Germs and the Taking of Territory |
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 208 | 2022 | 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 |
Field ExcercisesHow Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities |
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 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 … | Monica Townson | 136 | 1999 | View |
NEW! Holden After & BeforeLove Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose |
With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same … | Tara McGuire | 356 | 2022 | View |
Losing me, While Losing YouCaregivers Share Their Experiences of Supporting Friends and Family with Dementia |
Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia — and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 224 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Making a HomeAssisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People |
In some Canadian provinces, people with severe physical disabilities are simply warehoused in nursing homes, where many people, especially in the age of homecare, are in the final stages of their … | Jen Powley | 136 | 2023 | 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 | |
Nature-Based TherapyA Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families |
The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 304 | 2019 | View |
NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 364 | 2021 | View |
OppressionA Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition |
In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of … | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 264 | 2021 | View |