Health Care

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From Health of the Population From: Health and Wealth View 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
Heroin An 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 …		251		View
From 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 View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 …	Sarah Schulman	28	2016	$0.56 Add
From Hungry for Possibilities Too Many Beloved Dead, Too Few Elders From: The Care We Dream Of View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this essay, the author details her dreams of something different. These dreams are not just for herself, but for every queer and trans person lucky enough to get old, for the communities she …	Zena Sharman	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Income, Work and Education From: About Canada: Health and Illness View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Three discusses the relationship between income, employment, education, and health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the significant impact of economic factors on health and the growing …	Dennis Raphael	36	2024	$3.60 Add
From Introduction A Meeting of Hearts, Minds and Microbiomes From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome View 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 Doctors in denial: welcome to the comfort zone From: Doctors in Denial View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Introduction From: The Care We Dream Of View 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 NEW! Introduction From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	In the Introduction, the author Heather Patterson MD reflects on her career as a physician, her family life, her passion for photography, burnout, the original origins for this book, and how the …	Heather Patterson	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Is money enough? The Trudeau record on health care From: The Trudeau Record View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on health care.	Hugh Armstrong; Pat Armstrong	18	2024	$1.80 Add
From Key opinion leaders, clinical practice guidelines and medical societies getting the message out From: Doctors in Denial View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the impact of the conflicts of interest that occur when Canadian researchers and Canadian medical societies rely on pharmaceutical companies for favours, trips, and research funding.	Joel Lexchin MD	31	2017	$3.10 Add
From Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines the division between legal and illegal heroin during 1950s-1970s. The role of law enforcement and the pharmaceutical industry are explored, as well as the Narcotic Control …	Susan C. Boyd	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From Libera me From: The Care We Dream Of View Arsenal Pulp Press	The author presents a fictionalized account of a dying queer man, his brief, bright, sojourn in hospital, and his death via medical assistance in dying, surrounded by his community of friends.	Joshua Wales	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Living Conditions, Stress and the Human Body From: About Canada: Health and Illness View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Two analyzes the social determinants of health and their effect on individual health outcomes, and discusses the importance of addressing these underlying factors rather than simply …	Dennis Raphael	16	2024	$1.60 Add
From Medical journals — advertisements, money, regulation, rebellion and possibly retrenchment From: Doctors in Denial View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the relationship between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry. Discusses the push back of medical journals towards the pharmaceutical industry in more recent years and …	Joel Lexchin MD	37	2017	$3.70 Add