Health Care
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 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 | ||
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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. | Monica Townson | 22 | 1999 | $2.20 Add |
 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 … | 251 | View | ||
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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  Hungry for PossibilitiesToo Many Beloved Dead, Too Few Elders From: The Care We Dream Of |
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 |
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From  NEW! Income, Work and Education |
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 |
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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  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 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 |
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From  NEW! IntroductionFrom: Shadows and Light |
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 |
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From  NEW! Is money enough?The Trudeau record on health care From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on health care. | Hugh Armstrong; Pat Armstrong | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 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 |
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From Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970sFrom: Heroin |
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 |
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From Libera meFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
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 |
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From NEW! Living Conditions, Stress and the Human Body |
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 |
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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 |
