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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 BloodThe Stuff of Life |
With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us … | Lawrence Hill | 386 | 2013 | View |
 NEW! Book of HopeBook of Hope: Healthcare and Survival in the North |
A cancer diagnosis can be life changing for anyone, bringing new physical and emotional realities, changed relationships, and often frustration when dealing with healthcare systems. But living … | 186 | View | ||
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From  Boston, MassachusettsFrom: Fighting For Space |
Boston has a "Methadone Mile", a stretch in the city’s South End where needles litter the ground. Police tolerate the open drug use because to do otherwise would be futile. In … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From  NEW! Calling the shotsCanada’s Big Pharma-first response to COVID-19 From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter discusses the Trudeau government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Adam R. Houston | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Can People Be Addicted to TechnologyFrom: 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 … | Lisa Pont | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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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 |
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From  Can We Change?From: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines Canada’s family medicine crisis through Jeremy, a young resident torn between his patient, Mrs. D’Souza, and his daughter. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Canada’s Shared Destiny and the Future of MedicareFrom: Medicare |
Examines the choice that we as Canadians make about medicare as one that is fundamentally intertwined with our nation’s values and its future. Looks at medicare reform from this persepective | Roy Romanow | 19 | 2007 | $1.90 Add |
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From Canada’s Single-payer Medicare:Role Model for Taiwan From: Medicare |
Examines the adoption of a single-payer medicare system in Taiwain that is based off the model of Canada’s system and looks at the potential for public underfunding | May Tsung-Mei Cheng | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From Canadian Center for Addictions (CCFA)From: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Seth Fletcher | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From Canadian Experiments with Basic Income |
This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. | Evelyn L. Forget | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Change, Loss, and GriefFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines anticipatory grief and the cyclical nature of loss experienced by family caregivers over decades of care. | Kimberly Fraser | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability DebateFrom: Medicare |
Looks at the Health Care affordability debate by exploring what is left out of the statistics used by the Government such as population growth, inflation and income growth. Looks at what it would … | Diana Gibson | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care PolicyFrom: Medicare |
I discuss the majority judges’ poor appreciation of the interface between public and private health insurance across different health care systems and how, subsequently, this lack of … | Colleen Flood | 45 | 2007 | $4.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From Childhood Trauma and the Science of AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1998, Dr. Gabor Mate placed a lucrative career on hold and joined hands with Liz Evans, treating addicts in the Downtown Eastside. Mate’s eight years with the Portland Hotel meant … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
