Health Care
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 Doctors in DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort |
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 |
 Health and WealthHow 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! OppressionA Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition |
In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of … | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 264 | 2021 | View |
 Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
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From ForewordFrom: Doctors in Denial |
In this personal account Dr. Brian Goldman explains his relationship with Purdue Pharma Canada and how he played a major role as a promoter of OxyContin, for chronic pain, falsely claiming that … | Dr. Brian Goldman | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From Health of the PopulationFrom: Health and Wealth |
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 | ||
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From IntroductionA Meeting of Hearts, Minds and Microbiomes |
For centuries, humans have seen nature as something we must dominate, conquer, and tame, progressively eroding the natural resilience of ecosystems, with the loss of many species more vulnerable … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Oppression |
The preface outlines the aim of this book, which is to reframe health inequities in Canada explicitly within the context of systemic oppression. | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |
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From IntroductionDoctors in denial: welcome to the comfort zone From: Doctors in Denial |
Provides an overview of the medical industry in Canada paying particular attention to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Outlines and examines critically the different opinions … | Joel Lexchin MD | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction to Oppression: A Social Determinant of HealthFrom: Oppression |
This chapter introduces the goals of this book, gives an overview of its contents, and offers definitions for key terms and concepts explored throughout the book. | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From Medicine and industrya marriage of convenience or a marriage made in heaven? From: Doctors in Denial |
Outlines how the alliance between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community developed; economics, Medicare and patents were factors. | Joel Lexchin MD | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! People and Planet Under Threat: Social, Ecological, and Structural Determinants of HealthFrom: Oppression |
This chapter explores various oppressive systemic processes that are impacting human and planetary health. | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From Surviving the Dysbiosphere |
The international statistics on mental health in developed nations are troubling to say the least. In the United States 25 percent of the adult population reports having a mental illness in a … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 35 | 2017 | $3.50 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 … | 36 | $3.60 Add | ||
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From Government, industry and the medical professionménage à trois From: Doctors in Denial |
Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. | Joel Lexchin MD | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |
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From Meet Your MaestroThe Immune System |
Although it is often said that the brain is the final frontier in medicine, we contend that it is actually the immune system. Only now are we beginning to understand the ways in which the immune … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 34 | 2017 | $3.40 Add |
