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From  Prismatic Reflections: Cultivating Care and Community through Multifaceted CrisesFrom: Hot Mess |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines the 2014 Chemical Valley spill, the Fairy Creek protests, and the 2021 Pacific Northwest wildfires to argue that emergencies are deeply layered and require … | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Progressive Place and the Double Recovery ProgramFrom: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Kathryn Eve | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! PrologueFrom: On Opium |
The author describes feeling trapped since her body began to turn against her many years ago, when she first started to suffer the intense joint stiffness and accompanying pain that would turn … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial InterestsFrom: Medicare |
Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach | Scott Sinclair | 10 | 2007 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Protecting Public Safety and HealthFrom: National Security Law |
Discusses natural threats to national security and public health and safety, such as extreme weather, seismic events, epidemic disease, industrial disasters and failures of critical … | Craig Forcese | 24 | 2007 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Protests across CanadaFrom: Fighting For Space |
Even though Insite became operational, the activists knew they were on borrowed time as the continuity of this project was in the tenuous hands of the changing government. Keeping this in mind, … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
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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 |
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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  Rachel’s StoryFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo presents the stories of Rachel, a family physician in a small Ontario community, and Sara, a patient whose recovery depended on Rachel’s advocacy. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 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  References and NotesFrom: Conceivable |
This “chapter” is a bibliography. | Laine Halpern Zisman | 33 | 2024 | $3.30 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  RespiteFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines how Canadian respite care fails to meet the needs of family caregivers. | Kimberly Fraser | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 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 on … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 42 | 2021 | $4.20 Add |
