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With Child
Substance Use During Pregnancy, A Woman-Centred Approach
Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Lenora Marcellus
Drug use is among the behaviours that are associated with or a consequence of poverty. The contributors to this volume propose that those who provide services for pregnant drugusing women must recognize that care of women with social problems that affect pregnancy outcome should be approached in the same way as care for women with medical problems that have obstetric consequences. This book provides practitioners and researchers with valuable information about maternal drug use, best practices and… (more information)
The Socialist Register 2010
Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Edited by Colin Leys, Leo Panitch
Health care rights are fought over between commercial forces that seek to make health into a commodity (for those who can pay), and popular forces that seek to reduce gross inequalities and try to make (or keep) health as a public service. These essays analyze the global health industry: the corporations that sell pharmaceuticals and insurance and push to expand the consumption of goods and services, making health care everywhere a field of capital accumulation. (more information)
Terminal Damage
The Politics of VLTs in Atlantic Canada
Peter McKenna
“This book is assuredly not an anti-gambling screed. What I’m against, and make no doubt about it, is the scourge of the video lottery terminal (VLT), and the fact that not all gambling is created equal. There is a reason why those in the know refer to those electronic devices as ‘killer machines’ and the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’.”—from the Introduction The Atlantic Lottery Corporation promotes its VLT product as a win-win for Atlantic Canada. &… (more information)
Socialist Register 2010
Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Edited by Colin Leys, Leo Panitch
Health care rights are fought over between commercial forces that seek to make health into a commodity (for those who can pay), and popular forces that seek to reduce gross inequalities and try to make (or keep) health as a public service. These essays analyze the global health industry: the corporations that sell pharmaceuticals and insurance and push to expand the consumption of goods and services, making health care everywhere a field of capital accumulation. (more information)
Smoke Screen
Women’s Smoking and Social Control
Lorraine Greaves
Smoke Screen looks at the range of ways in which tobacco affects women: the evolution of cultural pressures on women’s smoking; the meanings of smoking to women; the benefits for socities of keeping women smoking; and the impact of health and tobacco policy on women’s smoking prevention and cessation. (more information)
Revolutionary Doctors
How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
Steve Brouwer
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Real Nurses and Others
Racism in Nursing
Tania Das Gupta
“Most nurses of colour experience everyday forms of racism, including being infantilized and marginalized. Most reported being “put down,” insulted or degraded because of race/ethnicity/colour. A significant proportion of nurses, non-white and white, report having witnessed an incident where a nurse was treated differently because of his/her race/ethnicity/colour.” These are only some of the conclusions that author Tania Das Gupta arrived at as a result of her… (more information)
Protect, Befriend, Respect
Nova Scotia’s Mental Health Movement, 1908–2008
Judith Fingard, John Rutherford
For one hundred years, the Canadian Mental Health Association and its antecedent organizations have constituted a major force in the campaign to improve the prospects of people living with mental illness. This book traces the evolution of the movement in Nova Scotia in three stages, from one that sought to protect mentally compromised people, to one that befriended those struggling with mental disabilities and spoke out against discrimination, and finally, to one that advocates for the rights of… (more information)
Plot Against the NHS, The
Colin Leys, Stewart Player
Revealing the British coalition government’s plans, this examination demonstrates how a small “policy community” inside and outside the department of health have schemed for 10 years to replace the National Health Service (NHS) with a U.S.-style health care market without informing parliament or the public. While ex-ministers, officials, and the like profit from lucrative positions in private health companies, the population must cope with the increasing health care costs… (more information)
Pathways, Bridges and Havens
The Psychosocial Determinants of Women’s Health
Edited by Suzanne Cooper, Joanne Gallivan
In recent years, health research and policy have come to new understandings of human health through the framework based on knowledge of the determinants of health. This framework has inspired new efforts to explore the impact of psychosocial factors on health. This collection of recent research addresses a variety of psychosocial and social factors in women’s health: pathways to wellness and healing; bridges for physical health determinants; coping mechanisms that provide havens for… (more information)
Oppression
A Social Determinant of Health
Elizabeth A. McGibbon
Oppression and health are intricately connected. A recent emphasis on the social determinants of health has focused attention on the “causes of the causes” of ill health, including systemic forces such as capitalism, globalization, imperialism, medicalization, neo-colonialism and neoliberalism. If we are to change the oppressive practices that cause ill health our analysis must consistently and explicitly integrate these systemic forces and thus reframe growing health inequities within… (more information)
Maternity Rolls
Pregnancy, Childbirth and Disability
Heather Kuttai
Heather Kuttai is a 40-year-old white, heterosexual woman. She is married and is the mother of two children. Living in a quiet, middle-class neighbourhood, her life is, in many ways, seemingly the quintessential picture of what many consider to be traditional. However, her life is not as conventional as it appears: she is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair for mobility. Her disability dramatically changes the picture. Much of the writing about the experiences of women and mothers excludes the stories… (more information)
Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
Ryan Meili
Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports: far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our… (more information)
Health Policy Reform–Driving the Wrong Way?
A Critical Guide to the Global ‘Health Reform’ Industry
John Lister
John Lister has provided the definitive critique of market-oriented health care ‘reforms’ that the World Bank has been promoting at least since 1993. His book is a critical contribution to the struggle for equity-oriented, rights-based approaches to health systems in rich and poor countries alike.— Ronald Labonte, Canadian Research Chair and Ted Schrecker, Senior Policy Researcher, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa John Lister’s book is a powerful, worldwide… (more information)
Health of Nations
Towards a New Political Economy
Gavin Mooney
Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health–both within and between countries–remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism. ’The Health of Nations’ analyses how power is exercised both in health-care systems and in society more… (more information)
Giving Breastmilk
Body Ethics and Contemporary Breastfeeding Practice
Edited by Alison Bartlett, Rhonda Shaw
“This is an excellent book that is coherent and theoretically strong. The authorship is diverse yet highly appropriate. The book follows a logical sequence and represents an advance in the social science of breastfeeding. It is likely to be of interest to academics in the fields of anthropology, sociology and women’s studies. It will also appeal to breastfeeding specialists, midwives and other health professionals working with breastfeeding women.” —Fiona Dykes, Professor… (more information)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effect
Developing a Community Response
Edited by Glen Schmidt, Jeanette Turpin
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Effects (FAS/E) are particularly serious problems in many northern communities. Canadian material on this subject is lacking and services are poorly developed. Part of the reason has to do with the relatively recent recognition of FAS/E. However there is also the problem of hinterland location and resulting marginalization of populations in Northern parts of the country. The intent of this book is to provide an informative, practical and critical resource that will be… (more information)
False Positive
Private Profit in Canada’s Medical Laborities
Ross Sutherland
When your doctor takes a blood sample for analysis, where does it go? Does it find its way to your local, publicly owned hospital? Does it take a longer journey to a private, for-profit lab in the next city? Chances are, you’ve never given it a lot of thought. In this daring exposé of the laboratory system, Sutherland investigates its historical and contemporary development in Canada and argues that the landscape has been heavily influenced by the private, for-profit companies… (more information)
Environmental Illness in Nova Scotia, 1983-2003
David T. Janigan
Nova Scotia was the first Canadian province to be faced with a large-scale demand for workers’ compensation in a single institution, Camp Hill Medical Centre, Halifax. More than half of the 1100 workers complained of environmental illnesses (or the WHO’s idiopathic environmental intolerances) blamed on the poor indoor air quality, which was exhaustively investigated. In response, the Province established three outpatient facilities, one permanent, and overlapping and following these… (more information)
Deadly Fever
Racism, Disease and a Media Panic
Charles T. Adeyanju
In February 2001, a woman from the Congo was admitted to a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, with a serious illness of unknown origin. Very quickly, the rumour spread that she was carrying the deadly Ebola virus. Even though it was equally quickly determined that she did not carry the virus, the rumour spread like wildfire throughout the Canadian media. Through a content analysis of four major Canadian newspapers and interviews with journalists, medical practitioners and members of the Black community… (more information)
Challenge and Change
A History Of The Dalhousie School Of Nursing, 1949-1989
Peter Twohig
Challenge and Change offers an innovative perspective on Dalhousie University School of Nursing’s first four decades of growth and transition. This book draws on rich archival sources and oral interviews to critically examine the school. Its analysis is highly relevant to contemporary debates within the history of nursing and the education of nurse practitioners. Most importantly, this book situates university nursing schools within their many and varied contexts of community, health care… (more information)
Care and Consequences
The Impact of Health Care Reform
Edited by Diana L. Gustafson
Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, cost-containment and improved efficiencies, the business model has ushered in “bottom line” financial management which has brought us steadily deteriorating health care services. Framed within a clear analysis of this new health care model, the articles in this collection illustrate how diverse groups… (more information)
Big Death
Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate Deathcare
Doug Smith
Over the last twenty years the corporate death “care” industry, has taken over Canada’s funerals and funeral planning, in preparation for the Golden Age of Death in North America, which will commence in 2016, when the first baby boomer turns seventy. In Big Death, Winnipeg writer Doug Smith shows how “Big Death” has bought up countless funeral homes, jacked up prices and maintained the facade of local ownership by not changing the name over the door. The book also… (more information)
Behind the Rhetoric
Mental Health Recovery in Ontario
Jennifer Poole
Recovery has taken the mental health world by storm. In clinics, hospitals, community organizations and governments across North America and Europe, recovery rhetoric is everywhere. Its message of hope is catchy, its promise of wellness long overdue and its claims (somewhat) substantiated. But where did this new vision for mental health come from and what does it really mean for a system long unbalanced? Focusing on Ontario’s mental health communities, the book is the first to take a critical… (more information)
Ancient Mariner Speaks
Examining Regimes of Truth in ADHD
Marion Stordy
The number of children labelled ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has been on the increase since the term entered common medical parlance thirty years ago. Through a deeply personal narrative and an analysis of Michel Foucault’s theories on truth, power and knowledge, The Ancient Mariner Speaks argues that the ADHD label has contributed to the pathologizing of children’s, particularly boys’, behaviour and the further marginalization and exclusion, rather than inclusion… (more information)
About Canada: Health Care
Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong
Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program—and for good reason. For more than 30 years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health care based on need and not on ability to pay. But it is a complex system: changes proposed and those already underway can be difficult to understand and evaluate. What do ‘public’ and ‘private’ mean as they apply to our current health care system and in proposed reforms? As the boomer generation ages, will the growing number… (more information)
About Canada: Health & Illness
Dennis Raphael
Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by luck, treatment options and lifestyle choices. Government, public health units and various disease associations all reinforce this perception by continually extolling lifestyle choices and genetic research as the solution to our illnesses. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story. This book argues that it is the social determinants of health, imposed on us by the ‘market’, that dictate the… (more information)
About Canada: Disability Rights
Deborah Stienstra
Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to… (more information)
A Place to Call Home
Long Term Care in Canada
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Barbara Clow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, Morgan Seeley, Jane Springer
Long-term residential care operates in the shadows; too often viewed as a necessary evil best left invisible. This book is takes a different approach. It is about daring to dream about developing alternative forms of long-term, residential care based on an understanding of what exists today and of what is possible in the future. Taking into account the fact that the overwhelming majority of residents and providers are women, the book makes gender a central concern in planning for care that treats… (more information)