Health Care
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 … | Monica Townson | 136 | 1999 | View |
![]() HeroinAn Illustrated History |
Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and … | Susan C. Boyd | 251 | 2022 | View |
![]() 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 |
![]() Scandinavian Common SensePolicies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health |
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 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 |
![]() NEW! Shadows and LightA Physician's Lens on Covid |
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 OfLiberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health |
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 HenchmanCapitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster |
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 ![]() 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 |
From ![]() NEW! ForwardFrom: Shadows and Light |
A forward from Dr. Katharine Smart. | Heather Patterson | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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. | Monica Townson | 22 | 1999 | $2.20 Add |
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 |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
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 ![]() 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 |
From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
The author explores the global reaction to and handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. | Stephen Gowans | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |