Health Care

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Government, industry and the medical profession

ménage à trois

From: Doctors in Denial

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Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. 27 $2.70 Add
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Nova Scotia Nurses and Health Care Restructuring

Strategies to Manage Job Displacement

From: Care and Consequences

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“They Don’t Listen to Your Body”

Minority Women, Nurses and Childbirth under Health Reform

From: Care and Consequences

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Chapter 4: The Capitalists’ Nanny State

From: The Killer's Henchman

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This chapter continues to explore the capitalist state and how it fucntions to support and facilitate the business-based upper class and its accumulation of the wealth that is produced by the … 34 $3.40 Add
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HIV Criminalization in Canada

How the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

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This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … 28 $0.56 Add
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Social Inclusion

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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Chapter 5: Capitalist Pharmacy

From: The Killer's Henchman

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This chapter is focused on the pharmaceutical industry/capitalist pharmacy and the interests of its wealthy investors. 24 $2.40 Add
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Obsuring a Crisis

The Obstetricians' and Gynecologists' Job Action and Maternal Care in Alberta

From: Care and Consequences

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Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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Chapter 6: The Billionaire

From: The Killer's Henchman

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The author focuses on Bill Gates, examining how Gates offers a concrete example of how members of the capitalist class use their wealth to shape political agendas to expand their own interests at … 29 $2.90 Add
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Dissolving, Dividing, Distressing

Examining Cutbacks to Programs Responding to Sexual Violation

From: Care and Consequences

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Drugs

Regulatory Capture and the Disabling of Drug Safety at Health Canada

From: Corporate Rules

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In this chapter, Michèle Brill-Edwards provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Canadian government has quietly disabled the safety system for drugs in Canada. The Food and Drugs Act … 23 $2.30 Add
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What Needs to be Done?

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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Chapter 7: The Henchman

From: The Killer's Henchman

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This chapter explores Covid-19 mitigation/responses with particular analysis of Operation Warp Speed, Washington’s Covid-19 vaccine program, which used public money, and capitalized on … 44 $4.40 Add
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Pharmaceutical Companies

Relationship Between the Canadian Government and Big Pharma — “Clientele Pluralism”

From: Corporate Rules

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In this chapter, Joel Lexchin examines the pharmaceutical industry and “clientele pluralism. “ Lexchin argues that the pharmaceutical industry can drive regulation by influencing not … 20 $2.00 Add
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The New Wageless Worker

Volunteering and Market-Guided Health Care Reform

From: Care and Consequences

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