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From  NEW! Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health |
Chapter Six dissects the relationship between public policy and the social determinants of health in Canada, highlighting the country’s poor performance in addressing health inequities and … | Dennis Raphael | 53 | 2024 | $5.30 Add |
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From  Queer Families, Compensatory Motherhood, and the Political Culture of EscalationFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter examines the role of the family as a dangerous place of production of this group-based negative loyalty, male control, and violence. The author suggests that the rising legitimacy of … | Sarah Schulman | 22 | 2016 | $0.44 Add |
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From  Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From Rat ParkFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
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From  Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denialFrom: Doctors in Denial |
Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … | Joel Lexchin MD | 45 | 2017 | $4.50 Add |
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From  Responding |
This chapter concerns caregiver’s responses to their important one’s diagnosis, the impact becoming a full-time caregiver had on their own health and wellness, and the effect this had … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 42 | 2021 | $4.20 Add |
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From Sacramento, CaliforniaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on “Othersite”, a supervised injection site, operating in Sacramento, California. | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From  Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 30, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses … | Rudyard Griffiths | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Saturn Devouring His Children: A Tale of Instability in Seven PartsDeath From: On Opium |
This chapter describes the War on Drugs, and the illegal use of fentanyl by a person living precariously. It also includes an interview with the founder of Mothers Stop the Harm (MSTH) and … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
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From  Saved From Drowning in a Video Game AddictionFrom: About Face |
The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … | Ian Young | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From Seattle, WashingtonFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 2017, Seattle follows Vancouver’s example of harm reduction, to launch "Safer is better" campaign. | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
 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 |
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From Setting Myself Up For SuccessFrom: 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 … | Andrew Carter | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! SevenFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add | |
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From NEW! SeventeenFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add | |
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From Sex Addiction and Evidence in Canadian Family-Law CourtsFrom: About Face |
The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … | David Frenkel | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
