Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees. An Iraqi journalist whose son has been been murdered develops post-...
Public health
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Author:Scholtens, Martina, MDSummary: - Author:Fonda, JaneSummary:
A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest "This is the last...
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Author:Pennie, RossSummary:Suspense and corruption light up the third Dr. Zol Szabo offering
Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’ stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where teens are dying from...
- Author:Kenny, CharlesSummary:
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
For four thousand years, the size and vitality...
- Author:Schwarcz, JoeSummary:
Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the science of essential oils, placenta creams, intermittent fasting, and of course the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in this new collection from the master of...
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Author:Johnson, PeterSummary:Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they...
- Author:Cameron, Ian ArthurSummary:
Quarantine, What is Old is New by Ian Arthur Cameron, MD, Historian and medical doctor Cameron has produced a gripping history of quarantine in Canada, the forgotten story of the men and women who worked to save lives and protect the...
- Author:Cameron, MD, Ian ArthurSummary:
Cameron has produced a gripping history of quarantine in Canada, the forgotten story of the men and women who worked to save lives and protect the citizens of this land. A story of the early years of immigration to Canada, and of marine...
- Author:Alvarez, Fernando, Bibeau, GillesSummary:
La gestion du système de santé est un enjeu majeur de notre société car elle concerne chacun des individus qui en fait partie. Au Québec l’immobilisme gouvernemental combiné aux attentes chaque fois plus importantes de la population...
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Author:Thifault, Marie-ClaudeSummary:Sages-femmes, religieuses, sœurs hospitalières, bénévoles, infirmières de la Croix-Rouge, de colonie, militaires, en psychiatrie, assistantes sociales et professionnelles de la santé sont ici sujets de l'histoire dans le large...
- Author:Baker, ChandlerSummary:
A heartfelt, witty, and thought-provoking YA love story about two teens who fall for each other while forced apart during quarantine, written by two New York Times bestselling authors, and for fans of Five Feet Apart , Anna and the...
- Author:Johnson, StevenSummary:
As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra...
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Author:Wiland, HarrySummary:The Opioid Epidemic is the worst man-made epidemic in the history of our nation. More people die each year from an opioid overdose than in automobile accidents. The statistics are staggering. Do No Harm spotlights experts, journalists,...
- Author:Roedde, GretchenSummary:
A hopeful memoir that shares the author's voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario. In underserved areas of Canada, the communities themselves can be one of the strongest...
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Author:Werb, DanSummary:For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana...
- Author:Makary, MartySummary:
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay - an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health. More...
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Bedside and Community is the inside story of fifty years of health care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on the first-person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty, and students along with archival...
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Author:Carstairs, Catherine, Philpott, Bethany, Wilmshurst, SaraSummary:Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise. For over a century, public health campaigns have encouraged Canadians to adopt healthy habits in order to prolong lives, cost the state less, and produce more efficient workers. Be Wise! Be Healthy!...
- Author:Silversides, AnnSummary:
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of...
- Author:Armstrong, Hugh, Armstrong, PatSummary:
Health care is Canada's best loved social program--and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of...
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