Medical
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From  The Future is an Unlocked DoorFrom: 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 … | Jim Conley | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Future of Work |
This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship. | Evelyn L. Forget | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The Hair SalonFrom: Fighting For Space |
Despite the non-support of the sitting mayor of Vancouver, VANDU and PHS members persevered with a single-mindedness – to open a supervised injection site for the drug users of Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From The Integrity ModelTo Be or Not To Be as A Function of Our Values From: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Danielle Nahon; Nedra Lander | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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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 |
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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  The P earson Years, 1963–1968 |
Describes the development of the federation under Prime Minister Lester Pearson including the Quebec and Canada Pension Plans, the rise of separatism, Medicare, the constitution and foreign … | Ed Whitcomb | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From The Pandemic as an Invitation to Change |
Evelyn L. Forget | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add | |
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From  The Policy ChallengeFrom: Health and Wealth |
Public policy proposals for Canada at the turn of the 21st century that would improve the overall levels of health of the population, and reduce illness and disease, by focusing on the social and … | Monica Townson | 36 | 1999 | $3.60 Add |
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From  NEW! The ProblemFrom: Making a Home |
In this chapter, Powley discusses the many young people with disabilities who are placed in aged care facilities and how this impacts their mental health and social needs. Powley discusses the … | Jen Powley | 28 | 2023 | $2.80 Add |
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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 |
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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 NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellInterdependence From: On Opium |
This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 58 | 2021 | $5.80 Add |
 NEW! The Socialist Register 2022New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism |
The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far ‘centrist’ … | Colin Leys; Greg Albo; Leo Panitch | 352 | 2021 | View |
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From  The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human RightFrom: Medicare |
discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism | Stephen Lewis | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Third WaveIt’s a Tsunami From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Five examines the crushing reality of the third wave with more aggressive Covid-19 variants. Topics discussed include anti-vaccination protests, climbing hospitalizations in Alberta … | Heather Patterson | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
