Health Care

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Abortion to Abolition Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The history of abortion decriminalization and critical advocacy efforts to improve access in Canada deserve to be better known. Ordinary people persevered to make Canada the most progressive …	Martha Paynter	176	2022	View
NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some …	Deborah Stienstra	168	2020	View
About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this …	Dennis Raphael	192	2016	View
Care and Consequences The Impact of Health Care Reform Fernwood Publishing	Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, …	Diana L. Gustafson	325	2000	View
Doctors in Denial Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort James Lorimer and Company	Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of …	Joel Lexchin MD	344	2017	View
NEW! Fertility 40 Years of Change Irwin Law Inc.	In Fertility: 40 Years of Change, lawyer and author Maureen McTeer explores key medical, research, and legal developments in assisted human reproduction since the birth of the first IVF baby in …	Maureen McTeer	276	2022	View
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being	This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when …		136		View
NEW! Losing me, While Losing You Caregivers Share Their Experiences of Supporting Friends and Family with Dementia Fernwood Publishing	Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia — and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers …	Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger	224	2021	View
Medicare Facts, Myths, Problems & Promise James Lorimer and Company	Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often …	Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon		2007	View
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children Baraka Books	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View
NEW! Take Back the Tray Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions ECW Press	Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it …	Joshna Maharaj	258	2020	View
NEW! The Care We Dream Of Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health Arsenal Pulp Press	What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive, felt honoured and valued queer and trans people’s lives, bodies, and expertise? …	Zena Sharman	352	2021	View
From NEW! Beyond Abortion From: Abortion to Abolition Preview Fernwood Publishing	This chapter introduces the history of and context surrounding abortion in Canada as well as explores how prison abolition is connected to reproductive justice. The author talks about her own …	Martha Paynter	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From Health of the Population From: Health and Wealth Preview	A discussion of Canadian policies and pracices around the promotion of a healthy population in Canada in the 1990s, with context on activities elsewhere in the developed world in the same time period.		22		$2.20 Add
From Introduction Health Care Reform and its Impact on Canadian Women From: Care and Consequences Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	Diana L. Gustafson	10	2000	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Take Back the Tray Preview ECW Press	-	Joshna Maharaj	16	2020	$1.60 Add

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