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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Monica Townson	136	1999	View
Oppression A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	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
Scandinavian Common Sense Policies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health Baraka Books	When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought. Cited as models for their …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	192	2015	View
Secret Life of Your Microbiome Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness New Society Publishers	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
NEW! Shadows and Light A Physician's Lens on Covid Goose Lane Editions	When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic …	Heather Patterson	176	2022	View
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? What if the health system honoured and valued queer and trans people’s lives, …	Zena Sharman	352	2021	View
NEW! The Killer’s Henchman Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster bar	Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world …	Stephen Gowans	280	2022	View
From Foreword From: Doctors in Denial Preview James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Forward From: Shadows and Light Preview Goose Lane Editions	A forward from Dr. Katharine Smart.	Heather Patterson	2	2022	$0.20 Add
From Health of the Population From: Health and Wealth Preview James Lorimer and Company	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.	Monica Townson	22	1999	$2.20 Add
From Introduction A Meeting of Hearts, Minds and Microbiomes From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome Preview New Society Publishers	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
From Introduction From: The Care We Dream Of Preview Arsenal Pulp Press	What if queer and trans people loved going to the doctor, dreaming together and demanding more? This book is about merging the practical with liberatory imaginings about what queer and trans …	Zena Sharman	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From Preface From: Oppression Preview Fernwood Publishing	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
From NEW! Preface From: The Killer's Henchman Preview bar	The author explores the global reaction to and handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.	Stephen Gowans	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1: The Killer From: The Killer's Henchman Preview bar	The author discusses Covid-19 and its science, the measures put in place to stop it, some pandemic history and science, pandemic risks, globalization, lab-manipulated viruses (PPP research) and …	Stephen Gowans	29	2022	$2.90 Add

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