Health Care
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From  Pleasure as the BaselineInterview with Dawn Serra From: The Care We Dream Of |
The interviewee discusses pleasure as a right that extends to the provision of health care, asking what would health care be like if providers asked "What is a win for you, to help you feel … | Zena Sharman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Raising the Volume on the Social Determinants of Health in Canada and ElsewhereFrom: Oppression |
This chapter explores the importance of social determinants of health (sdh) and their quality and distribution, which can lead to adverse health outcomes. The author looks at the SDH in Canada … | Dennis Raphael | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 4: The Capitalists’ Nanny StateFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
This chapter continues to explore the capitalist state and how it fucntions to support and facilitate the business-based upper class and its accumulation of the wealth that is produced by the … | Stephen Gowans | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
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From Cripping HealingFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
Disability justice believes that disabled body/minds are part of the regular continuum of being human. In this essay, the author defines cripping healing as the way a disabled person defines the … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  HIV Criminalization in CanadaHow 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 |
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 |
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From  Medical journals — advertisements, money, regulation, rebellion and possibly retrenchmentFrom: Doctors in Denial |
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 |
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From  NEW! Pandemic InsightIt Takes a Team From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Three focuses on the collaborative efforts within the hospitals to fight off the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include giving recognition to the behind the scenes staffing such as … | Heather Patterson | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Racialization of OppressionFrom: Oppression |
This chapter looks at racism and health, examining how racism and systemic oppression harms health and can reduce lifespan. | Josephine B. Etowa | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From Academic health science centresresearch, money, controversies, conflict of interest and independence From: Doctors in Denial |
Describes and analyzes the money received by academic health science centres from the pharmaceutical industry for research and the conflicts that this money may create. | Joel Lexchin MD | 32 | 2017 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: Capitalist PharmacyFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
This chapter is focused on the pharmaceutical industry/capitalist pharmacy and the interests of its wealthy investors. | Stephen Gowans | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From On EscalationFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter explores the reasons why people are compelled to escalate. The centerpiece of this dynamic is the role of “bad” groups in encouraging bullying and shunning instead of … | Sarah Schulman | 31 | 2016 | $0.93 Add |
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From NEW! One Year InA Hopeful New Normal From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Four examines the progress made and new challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic one year in by the winter of 2021. Topics discussed include the idea of the ‘New Normal,’ the … | Heather Patterson | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From Oppression and the Health of Indigenous PeoplesFrom: Oppression |
This chapter explores how systemic colonial and racial violence, oppression, and stress have impacted the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples. | Marie Battiste | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From The System Isn’t Broken, It’s Working as DesignedFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
In this chapter, the author asks "What could we learn by better understanding the historical roots and ideas built into the health system? How might we situate our maps in relation to the … | Zena Sharman | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: The BillionaireFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
The author focuses on Bill Gates, examining how Gates offers a concrete example of how members of the capitalist class use their wealth to shape political agendas to expand their own interests at … | Stephen Gowans | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From Key opinion leaders, clinical practice guidelines and medical societiesgetting the message out From: Doctors in Denial |
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 |
