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From  A Drug-Users UnionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the early years of struggle and the subsequent formation of Vancouver Area Network Drug Users (VANDU). | Travis Lupick | 30 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Don’t worry, be happy?From: Doctors in Denial |
Discusses whether patient care is negatively affected by the interactions that pharmaceutical companies have with the medical profession. | Joel Lexchin MD | 23 | 2017 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! ElevenFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Ethics in Nature-based TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
As ethical practitioners and researchers, we ask our colleagues to ensure your practices are guided by an ethic of care, child and family rights, and professionalism. Ultimately, in the name of … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Getting from Here to There |
This chapter looks at the next steps for making basic income a reality in Canada. | Evelyn L. Forget | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Health CareA Public Right or a Private Option From: Canada after Harper |
Colleen Fuller first relates how underfunding, privatization, and other neoliberal health care policies have undermined medicare. | Colleen Fuller | 24 | 2015 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Not Today, But Someday, I Will Break FreeFrom: About Face |
On Morphine. 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 … | Amanda Murphy | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Obsessed by Profits: Big Pharma and the Corruption of HealthFrom: Oppression |
This chapter starts with an overall description of Big Pharma, goes on to discuss the consequences of drug companies’ overriding objective of increasing sales in order to increase profits, … | Joel Lexchin | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Concert of LifeHolistic Harmony |
Biodiversity, as we will see, is consciousness. It is life. We will also see that the story of interconnection, of Darwin’s clover — cats meant less mice, more bees, and thus more … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 33 | 2017 | $3.30 Add |
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From  The Last Act;Losing Pat From: Pilgrim Souls |
Talks about the process of losing Pat as Dementia took more of a hold on her, Discusses the Barrier (the point of physically and emotionallty exhaustion for caregivers), | Jim Lotz | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellIndependence From: On Opium |
The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From  The Truth about the Drug CompaniesFrom: Medicare |
Examines the pharmaceutical industry and the paradox of what the drug companies say vs. what really happens. Concludes with a recommendation for pharmacare in Canada | Marcia Angell | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Black Lives under LockdownCOVID-19 and Racial Injustice Converge From: Africentric Social Work |
This chapter provides an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, then discusses this event in the context of Africentric Social Work | Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From EnvoiFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
final thoughts about the power of love | Jim Lotz | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Making a Case for Green Care in North AmericaFrom: 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. | Stephanie Westlund | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From Market-based Health Care in the United States and its Lessons for CanadaFrom: Medicare |
Analyzes the market-based health care system in the US and what Canada can learn from it. Concludes that The US experience has shown the world that, when you allow investor-owned for-profit … | Arnold S. Relman | 11 | 2007 | $1.10 Add |
