Health Care
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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 |
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From  NEW! Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health |
Chapter Six dissects the relationship between public policy and the social determinants of health in Canada, highlighting the country’s poor performance in addressing health inequities and … | Dennis Raphael | 53 | 2024 | $5.30 Add |
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From  Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with FlowersQueering Death From: The Care We Dream Of |
In this account of her mother’s death, the author elaborated on the do-it-yourself attitude she brought to queering her grief, and also the the healing relationship she developed with death … | Zena Sharman | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From Putting Yourself on the LineInterview with Ronica Mukerjee From: The Care We Dream Of |
This interview with Ronica Mukerjee, who specializes in care for LGBTQ+ communities, people using injection and other drugs, and people who are HIV positive, underscores how international borders … | Zena Sharman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Queer AlchemyPerverting the Health System, Fighting to Win From: The Care We Dream Of |
The author describes queer activism and asks if a system is wrong, is it wrong to pervert it? She pledges to leave no one behind and explores what that means for disability justice, with personal … | Zena Sharman | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denialFrom: Doctors in Denial |
Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … | Joel Lexchin MD | 45 | 2017 | $4.50 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 Revolution through Health CareInterview with Anita “Durt” O’Shea From: The Care We Dream Of |
This interview is with Anita “Durt” O’Shea, the deputy directior of St. James Infirmary, a peer-based non-profit organization that serves sex workers throughout the San Franscso … | Zena Sharman | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From Ritualizing Queer CareFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
In this chapter, the author writes a memoir of a friend’s death due to the indifference of the health care system, while also describing her experience of heath care indifference with an … | Blyth Barnow | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
 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 |
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From seedFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
An invocation of memoir in prose and poetry, and a mediation, the author writes: Beloved, you already hold the seed to whatever healing you seek. | Jillian Christmas | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
 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 |
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From NEW! Social Exclusion |
Chapter Five unpacks the concept of social exclusion and its relationship to health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the experiences of marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples, people of … | Dennis Raphael | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From Sowing Seeds from My Ancestors, Planting Seeds for My DescendantsInterview with Sean Saifa Wall From: The Care We Dream Of |
The author inverviews Sean Saifa Wall, a Black queer intersex activist, visual artist, and rising scholar. Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for intersex … | Zena Sharman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 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 |
