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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From The Politics of Mental Health: Pathologizing the Impacts of InjusticeFrom: Oppression |
This chapter looks at how oppression is linked to mental and spiritual health and well-being, and critiques Canada’s mental health system. | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From NEW! The World UnmaskedFrom: Civilizing the State |
The World Unmasked takes a look at what was learned about governance, the role of the state, our cultural values and differences during the COVID-19 pandemic. | John Restakis | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From A Chance to Prove Myself Again – Gordon CousinsFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading tells the story of … | Stephanie Westlund | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
From Biophilic ScienceA Brighter Future |
All too often, science is now being used for technological applications that have nothing to do with human needs and aim only at creating new artificial wants. Even the most enthusiastic … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 40 | 2017 | $4.00 Add |
From Can We Afford a Basic Income? |
This chapter assesses the cost of basic income and whether it’s something we can realistically afford. | Evelyn L. Forget | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From Doctors, sales representatives, samples, gifts, trips and dinnersFrom: Doctors in Denial |
Discusses the various forms of interactions that pharmaceutical companies have with individual doctors in Canada, and how this impacts the health care they provide to their patients. | Joel Lexchin MD | 32 | 2017 | $3.20 Add |
From Group Applications in Nature-based TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
The therapeutic factors of instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, group cohesiveness, and existential … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
From How to Protect a Public Health Care SystemFrom: Medicare |
Examines the two competeing ideologies in the debate about the roles of government and the private sector in the financing and delivery of health care. The two competing ideologies are the … | Alan Maynard | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
From Managing Dementia:Never a Dull Moment From: Pilgrim Souls |
Looks at the challenges of being a caregiver to someone with dementia, resources that helped him, dealing with hard truths in that those diagnosed will never get better, gives plans strategies … | Jim Lotz | 48 | 2013 | $4.80 Add |
From Oppression: Redistributive Politics and Public PolicyFrom: Oppression |
This chapter examines how public policies — in particular spending by governments on social and health programs — can lead to oppressive practices and conditions. | Toba Bryant | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Pandemic InsightTime to Create Change From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Eight reflects on what we can learn from the pandemic and how we should move forward both personally and professionally. Topics discussed include the long road to recovery, the trauma … | Heather Patterson | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
From Pseudo WorldFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | William Stromich | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! TenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From The Killing FieldsFrom: Fighting For Space |
By the late 1990s, drug overdoses, HIV/AIDS, and an outbreak of hepatitis C were collectively killing more than one person in the Downtown Eastside every single day. Desperate for attention from … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellDependence From: On Opium |
This chapter describes the author’s dependance on the (taken as prescribed) opiods, and how these allow her to work and enjoy life in three chunks of five hours throughout the day. The … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 36 | 2021 | $3.60 Add |
From "Life is Good Now" – Shepherd Bliss and Kokopelli FarmFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading tells the story of … | Stephanie Westlund | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |