Health Care
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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  Social Exclusion as a Determinant of Health Grace-Edward GalabuziFrom: Oppression |
This chapter discusses the role social exclusion plays as a determinant of health outcomes and in generating health disparities among groups in society. It discusses three key dimensions of … | Grace-Edward Galabuzi | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  the seven sacred ways of healingFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony. | jaye simpson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Third WaveIt’s a Tsunami From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Five examines the crushing reality of the third wave with more aggressive Covid-19 variants. Topics discussed include anti-vaccination protests, climbing hospitalizations in Alberta … | Heather Patterson | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 7: The HenchmanFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
This chapter explores Covid-19 mitigation/responses with particular analysis of Operation Warp Speed, Washington’s Covid-19 vaccine program, which used public money, and capitalized on … | Stephen Gowans | 44 | 2022 | $4.40 Add |
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From  Guidelines on relationships between industry and the medical professiona guide to salvation? From: Doctors in Denial |
Discusses the development of ethical guidelines regarding the pharmaceutical industry by medical organizations by five organizations: the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Physicians … | Joel Lexchin MD | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From Harm Reduction Comes to Canada: The 1980s and 1990sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines the introduction of harm reduction practices to Canada during the 1980s and 1990s. Grassroots harm reduction programs such as safe injection sites and legal programs such as … | Susan C. Boyd | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From Oppression and Im/migrant Health in CanadaFrom: Oppression |
This chapter discusses the harmful impacts of systemic oppression on the state of im/migrant health in Canada. It examines the trend of deterioration of health in im/migrants in Canada through … | Denise Spitzer | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! The Fourth WaveNot the Best Summer Ever From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Six focuses on the fourth wave and the changing attitudes towards the pandemic and healthcare workers. Topics discussed include protests against public health and vaccination, … | Heather Patterson | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From Thoughts on an Anarchist Response to Hepatitis C and HIVFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
Written 5 years ago, and updated for this book, the authors detail how anarchist principles of self-organizing were central for HIV positive and Hepatitis C persons accessing health care, and … | Alexander McClelland | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! ConclusionFrom: The Killer's Henchman |
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From Medical students and physicians-in-training (residents)get them while they are young From: Doctors in Denial |
Examines the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical education in Canada. | Joel Lexchin MD | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Pandemic InsightCOVID’s Long Shadow From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Seven examines the lasting effects of Covid-19 and the pandemic which will take years to overcome. Topics discussed include the effects of Covid-19 on Emergency Departments, Surgical … | Heather Patterson | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From Regrowth in RuinsAbolitionist Dreams for Health System Transformation From: The Care We Dream Of |
Learning from prison and police abolitionists, the author asks if system tranformation would be useful to the health care system. This approach, rooted in the experience of Black, Indigenous, and … | Zena Sharman | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From Struggling for Heroin-assisted Treatment: The 2000sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses Canada’s first federally sanctioned supervised injection site that opened in Vancouver in 2003. The efficacy of heroin assisted treatment programs in other countries … | Susan C. Boyd | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Politics of Mental Health: Pathologizing the Impacts of InjusticeFrom: Oppression |
This chapter looks at how oppression is linked to mental and spiritual health and well-being, and critiques Canada’s mental health system. | Elizabeth A. McGibbon | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
